Co-creating sustainable supply chains: which engagement?

This paper seeks to investigate corporates best practices in sustainable supply chain management with a focus on the value and effectiveness of the different suppliers’ engagement approaches. The literature review shows that integration, objectives sharing and engagement between the actors of the supply chain not only are desirable preconditions for a major impact on sustainable development but need to merge together into a behavioural pattern. In this context, the paper wants to contribute to explain best practices for sustainable supply chain, with a focus on the manner to collaborate with suppliers. About this aspect, as literature underlines the importance of the sustainability in the supply chains, does not always deepen the approach and the motivations which lead companies’ behaviors in the decisions of engagement with suppliers.