Abstract
Collaborative governance plays a critical role in guiding the whole supply chain to achieve its strategic goals. Today’s tremendously changing and competitive business environment imposes a significant challenge for firms to sustain a balance between their self-interest and the required interdependency existed among them within a supply chain. Built upon the extensive literature on the supply chain management, this paper theorizes and proposes a Sustainable Collaborative Governance Framework detailing adaptive decision-making and action mechanisms throughout supply chain lifecycle that will enable the whole supply chain proactively and resiliently respond to uncertainties or perturbations without undergoing significant changes to firms’ normal operations. The framework extends the understanding and practice of the sustainable supply chain management by focusing on its dynamic, elastic, holistic, uncertainty-handling and future-oriented characteristics.
Highlights
Chain management (SCM) is a process that controls, coordinates, and integrates the logistics and the flow of information and capital from original suppliers through a series of intermediaries to end customers in a timely manner to improve the performance of all parties involved [1,2,3]
We focused our attention on an effective governance framework to improve the sustainability of a supply chain throughout its lifecycle, and proposed a Sustainable Collaborative Governance Framework with a classification scheme detailing the evolution of a supply chain in different phases of sustainable development
Comparing to the prior frameworks or models, the Sustainable Collaborative Governance Framework proposed in this paper contributes to the Supply chain management (SCM) literature in the following ways: First, this study adds to the existing body of knowledge on “sustainable SCM”
Summary
Chain management (SCM) is a process that controls, coordinates, and integrates the logistics and the flow of information and capital from original suppliers through a series of intermediaries to end customers in a timely manner to improve the performance of all parties involved [1,2,3]. It is these research gaps that shape the main focus and contributions of this paper To address these gaps, this paper focuses on the research question: how to design a governance model with high adaptability and resilience against uncertainties for the whole supply chain to obtain and sustain an ideal collaboration with improved performance. We will propose a Sustainable Collaborative Governance Framework, detailing the adaptive decision-making and action mechanisms throughout supply chain lifecycle that will enable the whole supply chain proactively and resiliently respond to uncertainties or perturbations without undergoing significant changes to its normal operations. We believe the proposed framework provides a concrete tool for supply chain managers to implement appropriate governance structure and different sustainable mechanisms based on different situations with improved adaptability and responsiveness in handling today’s changing business environment. We end the paper with a delineation of the contributions of the proposed framework and practical managerial applications built upon from this framework
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