Abstract
Design, development, and effective management of sustainable supply chains of the twenty-first century has become a raison d’être for most businesses today. The rising concerns of people for the socioeconomic and environmental impact of supply chains together with the unprecedented technological developments and innovations have made the management of supply chains as a complex, dynamic task: several stakeholders are involved, regulatory regimes keep on changing, and uncertainties are abound. Therefore, the primary aim of this book is to disseminate the roles of various perspectives and applications of modeling approaches aimed at improving the performance of sustainable supply chains. The key focus is on “innovative solutions” based on system dynamics, econometric, and agent-based models. In this chapter, we present a preview of 11 contributions, 6 describing unique perspectives and 5 demonstrating the utility of various modeling approaches, unified by a common goal of improving the performance of sustainable supply chains.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Understanding Complex Systems |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 3-13 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Publication series
| Name | Understanding Complex Systems |
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| ISSN (Print) | 1860-0832 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1860-0840 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Agent-based modeling
- Design modularity
- Food supply chain
- Green supply chains
- Procurement operations
- R&D perspective
- Supplier selections
- Sustainable supply chains
- System dynamics
- Timber supply chain
- Tourism supply chain
- Trainings
- Wind-power supply chain
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Computational Mechanics
- Artificial Intelligence
