Sustainable Supply Chain Research and Key Enabling Technologies: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Implications

Abstract

The concept of sustainability is becoming a buzzword these days. Incorporation of sustainability into Supply Chain Management is reviewing great attention from the wide range of industries in recent years. It is also an important study to review the impact of enabling technologies like Blockchain technology, Internet of Things (IoT), Big data, AR and VR-Immersive technologies, Artificial Intelligence on the economic, social and environmental aspects of Supply Chain performance. The importance of this study has attracted many academic researchers to publish their research in journals and proceedings, where discussion is about research progression both quantitatively and qualitatively. Following the progression, this article focuses on the review of key enabling technologies and sustainable supply chain providing insight into the development. Besides providing the insights of the progression this study also focuses on application areas of technologies along with its acceptance. Study presents a Systematic Literature review for showing the insights of key enabling technologies and sustainable supply chain along with the toppers of the research in terms of top authors, top journals, top research areas and top countries conducting this research thereby concluding the current status of the technology applications in sustainable supply chain and elaborating future research implications.