Social Sustainability and Resilience in Supply Chains: The Role of Collaboration to Face Risks

Nowadays, the global scenario is characterized by different trends affecting supply chains with several risks, which are increasingly challenging their resilience. This research focuses on a set of social trends such as those related to demographic change, urbanisation and new consumption patterns that put supply chains at risk of disruptions. Through a systematic literature review, this work provides an overview of the risks for supply chains derived from the analysed social trends. Moreover, through the proposal of a preliminary conceptualisation model, it investigates how collaboration practices can support supply chains in the mitigation of the identified risks by developing resilience and sustainability. Specifically, the model suggests possible actions to increase the social sustainability of supply chains mapping them according to different collaboration practices and categories of actors involved.