Abstract
Abstract. This paper is based on the analysis of ninety-six articles published over twenty-one years, between 1991 and 2012 concerning integration of sustainable development objectives into supply chain management. Disciplinary and geographical origin of authors shows a growing interest in the integration of sustainable development in supply chain management for scientific world, but maturity of this subject remains limited and the most of these studies still exploratory. A more in-depth study of these works therefore seems relevant. Analysis of these works highlights several economic, environmental and social concepts which concern the diffusion of sustainable development in daily activities of supply chain like financial performance, productivity, environmental management systems and Human rights. This work will look at the main sustainable development issues which characterize global performance (integration of economic, environmental and social performances) of supply chain and impact of sustainable practices on performances of this chain, as they appear in studied articles.
Highlights
Financial dimension has long been the single determinant of supply chain performance
Sustainable development principle is based on the balance of its three dimensions to prevent the pursuit of one objective to the detriment of the other two. It is in this context that the notion of global performance has emerged
We identify global performance issues most studied in literature as well as measurement methods and indicators most commonly used to integrate global performance in supply chain management
Summary
Financial dimension has long been the single determinant of supply chain performance. It is in this context that the notion of global performance has emerged Important contributions in this area date back, in 1997, to the working group of the Commissariat General of the Plan (Capron and Quairel-Lanoizelee, 2005, p.64), in which global performance is defined "as a multidimensional aim (or goal), economic, social and societal, financial and environmental, which concerns both companies and human societies, both employees and citizens ". Our analysis of these ninety-six contributions in relation to sustainable development in supply chains highlights fourteen main issues to comprehensively characterize sustainable performances of supply chain: Reliability
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