Cadeias de suprimentos sustentáveis: uma analise bibliométrica da produção cientifica

Abstract

With the growth of environmental awareness, organizations were confronted by society and stakeholders to adopt a more sustainable position in their production processes. Initially, the optimization of the operations was only carried out at the company's own facility, but in the last years environmental pressures began to affect the entire supply chain, making the organizations responsible for the actions of their suppliers and partners. Given this, the sustainability theme is integrated with that of supply chains and a new field of studies emerges, that of sustainable supply chains. Thus, this paper aims to characterize the field of research on sustainable productive chains. For that, a bibliometric analysis was performed with the aid of Excel and Citespace softwares in order to verify the main tendencies of the field.From the analysis performed it is possible to conclude that this is a recent and growing field. The discussions are present at a global level and the work seeks both to consolidate the theoretical field and to analyze empirically and describe the management practices and the performance of the actors involved in the process.The results also demonstrate the development of a multidisciplinary debate in this field of studies, which no longer covers administration alone but also introduces other areas such as engineering, technology, environmental sciences and ecology.