Journal of Cleaner Production – Special Issue – Supply Chain Management Innovation Practices for Sustainability Achievement under Carbon Trading Era

With the rapid growth of the global economy, environmental pollution caused by carbon emissions has become one of the important factors restricting sustainable development. How to explore the economic growth mode characterized by low carbon emissions has become a top priority for national development. Manufacturing enterprises, as main participants, have been encouraged to perform low-carbon operations during the whole supply chain. In addition, end-of-life product recycling and remanufacturing are also adopted to achieve a circular economy through resource utilization and energy saving. To help achieve national emission reduction targets, sustainable supply chain management innovation practices should be engaged to stimulate carbon reduction. Carbon, as an economic resource, is permitted to be traded among different organizations, and carbon emission has also been regulated by governments. This carbon trading mechanism has been widely promoted to effectively control carbon emissions of manufacturing plants. Under this circumstance, it is of great significance to probe into innovative supply chain management practices under the new carbon trading era for carbon reduction and sustainability achievement.The special issue aims to compile the studies that address the advancements in this field that would introduce a new wave of transformation innovations in supply chain management.

SCOPE OF PAPERS

The topics to be covered in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

1. The impact of carbon trading policy on carbon emission reduction technology innovation

2. Collaborations and Innovations for Sustainable Supply Chain

3. Data-driven SCM process considering carbon emission measurements

4. Managing operations and supply chains in a socially responsible way facing carbon trading policy

5. Barriers to low-carbon technology Adoption for Sustainable SCM

6. Emission reduction decision-making of remanufacturing supply chain under carbon trading policy

Guest editors:

Sunil Tiwari: Senior Lecturer in Operations Management, University of Bristol Business School, 11-13 Tyndall’s Park Road, Clifton, BS8 1PY, Bristol, UK. Email: sunil.tiwari@bristol.ac.uk

Fuli Zhou: Associate Professor, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, China. Email: fl.zhou@email.zzuli.edu.cn; deepbreath329@outlook.com

Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour: Professor, NEOMA Business School, France. Email: c-j.chiappetta-jabbour@neoma-bs.fr

Manuscript submission information:

When submitting your manuscript please select the article type “VSI: SCM Innovation Practices”. The submission period is from 25 March 2024 to 31 October 2024. 

All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.

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