Sustainable Supply Chain Management from resources and capabilities

Abstract

Due to asetof demands related to the sustainability inclusion in organizational strategies those related to supply chains have emerged as central. In this context, organizations have possibilities to develop sustainability strategies from their resources and initiatives focused on their organizational boundaries. However, when these strategies are extended to supply chains more effective results can be achieved by using internal resources and capabilities for developing to interorganizational relationships. Therefore, this study aims to understand how resources and capabilities can facilitate the application of sustainable supply chain management from the perspective of the Resource Based View (RBV) and Relational View (RV). Thus, a theoretical essay was developed in order to present how those perspectives can be used as a base to propose some practical directions for companies to use resources and capabilities to develop sustainable strategies along the supply chain. Therefore, we present that the perspectives of RBV and RV integrated to the context of sustainable supply chain management can bean opportunity to explore howto integrate internal organizational elements into collaborative relationships in supply chains through appropriate governance mechanisms. Also, presents potential organizational actions that can lead to the creation of competitive and / or collaborative advantages. In this context, this paper contributes to the literature improvement to address the development of resources and capabilities in relation to sustainable supply chain management. Keywords: Sustainability. Supply Chains. Strategy.Resources.Capabilities.