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5118Responding to the state’s strategy goal of achieving “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality”, firms have necessity to integrate suppliers and customers on green environmental protection practices, for improved environmental performance, economic benefits, and social reputation, and enhance sustainable competitiveness. Existing literature makes some contributions to green supply chain integration, but lacks a systematic review that maks it difficult to comprehensively understand the research status at home and abroad. Therefore, this paper reviews and summarizes the related literature. Firstly, this study illustrates the concept of green supply chain integration, and divides the construct into three dimensions as green internal integration, green supplier integration, and green customer integration. Secondly, we summarize the influencing factors of green supply chain integration including stakeholder pressure, environmental awareness, and resources and abilities. Then, this paper concludes the impacts of green supply chain integration on firms’ environmental, financial and social performance by combining the promoting and hindering effect paths. Finally, this paper constructs an integrated research framework and proposes some theses that future research should pay attention to. We suggest that: (1) The soft resources and capabilities should be investigated as influencing factors for green supply chain integration and the configurational effects of multi-antecedent should be further explored. (2) The moderating roles of control mechanisms and contextual factors should be analyzed when studying the influencing factors of green supply chain integration. (3) The positive and negative impact paths of green supply chain integration should be considered simultaneously to study the environmental, financial, and social performance outcomes. This study constructs a framework for green supply chain integration, aiming to clarify the thread of research theme and provide more comprehensive insights for managers to solve practical difficulties in green supply chain integration. This study also encourages scholars to devote to some research gaps, so as to enrich the theoretical content of green supply chain integration.
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Foreign Economics & Management
LiZengquan, Editor-in-Chief
ZhengChunrong, Vice Executive Editor-in-Chief
YinHuifang HeXiaogang LiuJianguo, Vice Editor-in-Chief
A Literature Review and Prospects of Green Supply Chain Integration
Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 44, Issue 06, pp. 135 - 152 (2022) DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.20211222.106
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Jiang Yisa, Feng Taiwen. A Literature Review and Prospects of Green Supply Chain Integration[J]. Foreign Economics & Management, 2022, 44(6): 135-152.
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