Green Supply Chain and Sustainability

Bibliometric Review of Evolutionary and Emerging Themes Literature

Abstract

The growing importance of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has been heightened by increasing environmental deterioration, for example, decreasing raw material, flooding of waste sites and increasing pollution levels (Srivastava, 2007). Supply chain management (SCM) is about coordinating and managing the complex network of business relationships that aim to deliver an appropriate product to the end user or consumer. Despite the importance of the green supply chain theme and its relationship with sustainability, when examining the literature it is clear that there is a lack of revisionary studies, especially bibliometric studies that make it possible to understand the emergence, evolution and frontier studies of these themes, given Therefore, this study aims to identify the emergence, evolution and map the border themes of the green supply chain and sustainability theme, thus mapping and systematizing the knowledge domain of these themes. This study was prepared using bibliometric techniques, that is, it is a bibliometric review. The 599 articles that make up the sample of this research were imported into the VOSviewer software to enable the creation of the co-citation map and bibliographic pairing. In relation to the co-citation map, three theoretical clusters were identified. The bibliographic matching analysis made it possible to present frontier studies, that is, current research trends and paths for future research on green supply chain. The bibliographic matching map resulted in the identification of four clusters.