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Strategic Evolution and Digital Transformation in Green Supply Chains

Submission Deadline: 30 June 2027
Special Issue Editors
Taiwen Feng
School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology Weihai, Weihai, China
Interests:

green supply chain management, sustainable operations management, supply chain resilience

Qiansong Zhang
School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an, China
Interests:

green supply chain management; sustainable operations management; green Innovation; corporate social responsibility

Haiqing Shi
School of Economics and Management, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai, China
Interests:

green supply chain management; artificial intelligence in supply chains; sustainable operations management; corporate social responsibility

Special Issue Information

Growing environmental pressures, resource constraints, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations are reshaping green supply chains. Green supply chain management is moving beyond fragmented sustainability practices and compliance responses toward a more integrated and strategic approach encompassing life-cycle management, low-carbon operations, circular resource use, and coordinated environmental action across supply chain partners. However, the evolutionary pathways of green supply chains may vary across industries, institutional environments, organizational capabilities, stakeholder relationships, and stages of development. Such diversity requires closer examination of how green supply chain strategies emerge, evolve, and adapt over time. Concurrently, digital transformation is changing how green supply chains are designed, managed, and coordinated. Technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and digital twins can enhance supply chain visibility, traceability, forecasting, resource efficiency, and collaborative decision-making. Despite rapid advances in managerial practice, research has yet to fully explain how green supply chain strategies evolve, how digital transformation supports different green supply chain activities, and how these two processes interact and co-evolve over time. This Special Issue seeks to advance theoretical and empirical understanding of the strategic evolution and digital transformation of green supply chains. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:

  1. Evolutionary Pathways and Strategic Configurations of Green Supply Chains
  2. Governance Challenges, Strategic Tensions, and Unintended Consequences in Green Supply Chain Evolution
  3. Digital Transformation across Green Supply Chain Processes and Product Life Cycles
  4. Organizational, Technological, and Institutional Enablers and Barriers to Digital Transformation in Green Supply Chains
  5. Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Digital Technologies for Green Supply Chain Transformation
  6. Interactions and Co-evolution between Green Supply Chain Strategies and Digital Transformation
Keywords
green supply chains; strategic evolution; digital transformation; artificial intelligence; sustainability governance
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International Journal of Systematic Innovation, Electronic ISSN: 2077-8767 Print ISSN: 2077-7973, Published by AccScience Publishing