The Selective Study of a Closed-Loop Supply Chain by a Socially Responsible Prospective

• Main Authors: Mohammad Vahid Sebt, Fatemeh Sasanian Asl
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kharazmi University 2021-02-01
• Series: International Journal of Supply and Operations Management
• Subjects: corporate social responsibility; closed-loop supply chain; stackelberg game
• Online Access: http://www.ijsom.com/article_2832_f6ba0acfd024247882f9ee03c485d3ce.pdf

Improving the economic and environmental performance has become the main interest of the businesses to get the sustainability in touch in the long time. As a result of environmentally activities and reduction of resources for economic life, many companies use the reverse and the forward supply chain incorporation together; thus, in the present century the major challenge facing businesses is the needs of consumers and shareholders. Indeed, organization’s awareness of their responsibility has been addressed in a new concept called corporate social responsibility. The main question that arises is that How we can affect our closed-loop supply chain by considering social responsibility. For this purpose, in the following sections, we sort and compare 30 gathered papers from 2004 to 2019 by the term closed-loop supply chain in a table and investigate the term corporate social responsibility in these studies and present the analyzed results.