Rethinking Global Supply Chain Governance: An Integrated Conceptual Framework for Resilience, Sustainability, and Digital Innovation in an Era of Persistent Disruption
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https://doi.org/10.47604/ijscm.3861Keywords:
Supply Chain Resilience, Digital Transformation, Sustainability, CIPM, Procurement, Humanitarian Logistics, Circular Economy, Geopolitical Risk, Network DesignAbstract
Purpose: This paper develops a unified conceptual framework that bridges ten thematic domains of contemporary supply chain management in response to the fragmentation of existing scholarly frameworks.
Methodology: Drawing on a systematic review of Scopus-indexed scholarship published between 2018 and 2025, the paper employs the Contextual Innovation Performance Model (CIPM), originally developed by Sambiri (2022, 2024), as the theoretical architecture through which interdependencies among domains are examined.
Findings: The analysis reveals that resilience, sustainability, and digital innovation have ceased to operate as separate strategic agendas and have instead converged into a single, indivisible performance imperative.
Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The CIPM Supply Chain Management Framework provides a theoretically grounded and practically actionable integrative architecture for researchers and practitioners, generating four testable research propositions and offering guidance for organisations seeking to build supply chains capable of generating sustained competitive and social value under conditions of persistent uncertainty.
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