Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

By Sebastian Kot. 2018

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The sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) plays a key role in the economies of all of the countries in the world. These entities constitute the basis for the development of the national and global economies. In a contemporary complex and competitive business environment, the adaptation of appropriate strategies is a particularly important effort to furthering the development of companies from the SMEs sector. In this context, the application of the concept of sustainable supply chain management (SCM) in the operation strategy of SMEs seems to be a very important function. This supply chain also covers all three aspects of sustainable development: business, environmental, and social. The purpose of this article is to present the current state of the research in sustainable development in relation to managing the supply chain of SMEs, as well as the empirical findings in this area. The results found that all of the sustainability areas were very important in the supply chain management practices of the studied SMEs, despite the imbalance described in the literature. The study also presents the most important elements in the particular sustainability areas of SCM and SMEs.

Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

1. Milan Paták
2. Matej Masár
3. Mária Hudáková
4. M. Lusková

In Marketing

1. Milan Paták
2. Matej Masár
3. Mária Hudáková
4. M. Lusková

In Strategy and Management

1. Milan Paták
2. Matej Masár
3. Mária Hudáková
4. M. Lusková

Citations in the corpus

• Economic Business Sustainability and Strengthening Human Resource Capacity Based on Increasing the Productivity of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Makassar City, Indonesia (2021, background): “In a contemporary complex and competitive business environment, the adaptation of appropriate strategies is particularly important for furthering the development of companies in the SME sector [144].”
• The Dependence of Perceived Business Risks on the Size of SMEs (2018, result): “This hypothesis is confirmed by many other authors who have done similar research (Kozubíková et al., 2017b; Belás et al., 2018; Kot, 2018; Popp et al., 2018; Oláh et al., 2018).”