Sustainability and environmental concerns have been important topics of discussion in recent decades. Green supply chain management assures the effectiveness public company policies greening their operations, increasing market share, improving image reputation, profits. The objective this article is to propose a conceptual framework that considers dimensions, categories, practices green managem...

The supply chain has been traditionally defined as a one-way, integrated manufacturing process wherein raw materials are converted into final products, then delivered to customers. Under this definition, the supply chain includes only those activities associated with manufacturing, from raw material acquisition to final product delivery. However, due to recent changing environmental requirement...

Supply chain paradigms have been explored, but it is still very difficult to integrate some concepts that seem to be contradictory. This paper explores production and supply chain paradigms such as lean, agile, resilient and green. Tradeoffs between these management paradigms are identified and explored to help organizations and their supply chains to become more efficient and competitive. This...