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THE EVOLUTION OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND THE ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH TRENDS

Tang-Ting Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Management, Far East University, Tainan, Taiwan

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Chin-Min Liao

Lecturer, the School of Extension Education

Far East University, Tainan, Taiwan

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the evolution of the intellectual structure of supply chain management (SCM) studies. Bibliometric analysis, multivariate analysis and social network analysis were used to trace the development path of SCM research. By analyzing 67,007 citations of 1,091 articles published in SCI and SSCI journals in SCM area between 2009 and 2018, this study maps the intellectual structure of SCM studies. The results suggest that contemporary SCM research is organized in two different concentrations of interest: sustainable SCM and green SCM. Future SCM studies will probably continue to center on these topics. The results help to profile the invisible network of knowledge production inSCM and provide important insights with implications for current and future research directions of SCM studies for management scholars and practitioners.

Key words: supply chain management, sustainable supply chain management, green supply chain management

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