Recent disastrous events and environmental risks have firmly recalled how resilience is an essential element for organizations to survive in today’s competitive scenario. However, increasing resilience through traditional approaches such as investing in extra capacity and resources is not always sustainable with respect to the declining availability of resources in the environment, also according to the Sustainable Development Goals, and in a general situation of erosion of the funding capacity of organizations. Accordingly, resilience and sustainability should be combined, but although the relationship between these two concepts in supply chains has been already explored, consensus on how to align their objectives is still missing. We posit that the sharing economy and its principles can represent a lever to combine resilience and sustainability through a better use of resources to be stretched and made adaptable in a sustainable way, laying the foundations of more resilient supply chains through better flexibility. In order to extend the current knowledge on this matter, we performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) combined with bibliometric network analysis techniques derived from the Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) methodology, investigating the intersection between resilience, sustainability and sharing economy in the field of supply chain management. A strong connection between resilience and sustainability and between sustainability and sharing economy is confirmed by our analysis. Whereas the relationship between resilience and sharing economy and the joint consideration of sustainable, resilient and sharing economy aspects are still unexplored by literature. The results of the review clarify the role of the sharing economy to empower more sustainable and resilient supply chains, providing useful insights for academics and practitioners and pave the way to future research in the field of sustainable and resilient supply chains.
The Sharing Economy as an enabler of Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains: a systematic literature review
Colicchia C.;
2021-01-01
Abstract
Recent disastrous events and environmental risks have firmly recalled how resilience is an essential element for organizations to survive in today’s competitive scenario. However, increasing resilience through traditional approaches such as investing in extra capacity and resources is not always sustainable with respect to the declining availability of resources in the environment, also according to the Sustainable Development Goals, and in a general situation of erosion of the funding capacity of organizations. Accordingly, resilience and sustainability should be combined, but although the relationship between these two concepts in supply chains has been already explored, consensus on how to align their objectives is still missing. We posit that the sharing economy and its principles can represent a lever to combine resilience and sustainability through a better use of resources to be stretched and made adaptable in a sustainable way, laying the foundations of more resilient supply chains through better flexibility. In order to extend the current knowledge on this matter, we performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) combined with bibliometric network analysis techniques derived from the Systematic Literature Network Analysis (SLNA) methodology, investigating the intersection between resilience, sustainability and sharing economy in the field of supply chain management. A strong connection between resilience and sustainability and between sustainability and sharing economy is confirmed by our analysis. Whereas the relationship between resilience and sharing economy and the joint consideration of sustainable, resilient and sharing economy aspects are still unexplored by literature. The results of the review clarify the role of the sharing economy to empower more sustainable and resilient supply chains, providing useful insights for academics and practitioners and pave the way to future research in the field of sustainable and resilient supply chains.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
