Guest editorial
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/JABS-06-2022-495 |
| Published date | 19 May 2022 |
| Date | 19 May 2022 |
| Pages | 425-427 |
| Subject Matter | Strategy,International business |
| Author | Sanjoy Kumar Paul,Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour |
Guest editorial
Sanjoy Kumar Paul and Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour
Green recovery through sustainable supply chains: implications for Asian nations
Statistics show a substantially increasing trend of unexpected and catastrophic events that
supply chains haveexperienced in the recent past. For example, 1,438 epidemicshave been
reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) between 2010 and 2018 (Hudecheck
et al.,2020). The impacts of these significant outbreaks are more severe for their unique
features, such as the long-term existence of the disruptions, ripple effect on other activities,
i.e. disruption propagations, and high uncertainty and simultaneous impacts on supply,
demand and infrastructure (Choi,2020;Ivanov, 2020a;Paul and Chowdhury, 2021;Queiroz
et al.,2020;Rahman et al., 2021a).
A recent global pandemic outbreak, known as the COVID-19 pandemic, affects both local
and global supply chains significantly (Chowdhury et al.,2021). The current impact of this
outbreak on supply chains is already very severe, and medium- to long-term effects are
predicted to behigher than any other previous major outbreakssuch as 2003 SARS and 2009
H1N1 (Haren and Simchi-Levi, 2020;Koonin, 2020). These disruptions have substantial
negative consequences on the return on sales, return on profit, stock return, brand image,
employment in the firms, buyers’ safety, environmental and social practices and overall
supply chain sustainability performance (Hendricks and Singhal, 2005;Thun and Hoenig,
2011;de Sousa Jabbour et al.,2020). Moreover, the consequences of the COVID-19
pandemic may go beyond the merely economic performance and affect supply chain
viability (Ivanov, 2020b), posing the questions of supply chain resiliency, sustainability,
recovery and reconfigurability(Paul et al., 2021a,b;Cheramin et al.,2021).
It is now essential to ask how green recovery,based on green innovation (Singh et al., 2020)
and a focus on supply chains,can recover sustainably from such an extraordinary epidemic
and pandemic. This specialissue focuses on publishing high-quality researcharticles which
explore different aspects of the sustainable recovery in supply chains during and post
epidemic and pandemicoutbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accordingly, this specialissue published seven articles in the area of sustainablerecovery in
supply chains. The first article analyzeddifferent strategies for green recovery in the context
of the mining industry of India and found that strategies for eco-innovation practices,
environm ental awareness and education and training are the three primary strategies for green
recovery (Marimuthu et al.,2021). The second article explored 13 critical sustainable recovery
measures for transportation systems and found that efficient traffic management, sustainability-
focused policies, sensitization of stakeholders,financial support and adoption of 4 R practices
are important for a sustainable recovery in freight transportation systems (Dwivedi et al., 2021).
The third article analyzed enablers, challenges and solutions fo r sustainable recovery for green
entrepreneurs and found that technological innovation, techno logy expertise, convergence of
virtual and physical spaces, collaboration rather than competition and benefits to underser ved
groups through transparency are the most critical enablers for sustainable rec overy (Jha et al.,
2021). The fourth article discussed the impacts of the COVID-19 pa ndemic on micro, small and
medium enterprises. It explored that 20%–33% of enterprises had a plan to adopt “green”
technology to mitigate the impacts (Laorden et al., 2022). The fifth article evaluated the
measures to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through circular economy
Sanjoy Kumar Paul is based
at UTS Business School,
University of Technology
Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Charbel Jose Chiappetta
Jabbour is based at
EMLYON Business School,
23 Av. Guy de Collongue,
69130, E
´cully, France.
DOI 10.1108/JABS-06-2022-495 VOL. 16 NO. 3 2022, pp. 425-427, ©Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN 1558-7894 jJOURNAL OF ASIA BUSINESS STUDIES jPAGE 425
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