Evaluating Sustainable Practices in Supply Chains: A Conceptual Framework for ESG Performance Assessment
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Assessing the sustainability of supply chains is a challenging research topic, and this study proposes a
possible conceptual framework through a review of previous research literature. The study first delves into the
impact of the supply chain at all levels and then proposes multiple variables that affect the sustainable supply
chain, including the overall performance of the supply chain, the economic impact, the environmental impact, the social impact, and so on. In terms of supply chain performance evaluation, the study further proposes two different concepts, one is to regard the supply chain as the weighted sum of the participating enterprises according to the performance evaluation method of general corporate governance, and the evaluation method is to use the performance of input and output as the basis for evaluation, and the other is to consider the supply chain as a whole and conduct overall performance evaluation from the perspective of sustainable supply
chain. At the end of this study, a possible conceptual architecture diagram is also presented as a reference for subsequent researchers.
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