Krimi Issam, Saikouk Tarik, Badraoui Ismail, Bahou Ziyad
College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
CERIIM, Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France.
J Environ Manage. 2025 Jun 20;390:126068. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126068.
The interplay between supply chain sustainability, resilience, and technological innovation has become increasingly important in addressing global environmental and market disruptions. Existing literature emphasizes that this synergy enhances adaptability while reducing negative environmental impacts, as supply chains can be both sources of vulnerability and drivers of value creation. This becomes particularly critical during supply chain expansions, where sustainability and resilience must be scaled in tandem. However, the internal and external governance and policy frameworks needed to support the integration of enabling technologies remain underexplored, especially in capital-intensive sectors such as the petrochemical industry, which holds significant global relevance due to its widespread environmental footprint and strategic economic role. This study explores how adaptive governance and policy mechanisms can facilitate the integration of technological innovations to enable sustainable and resilient supply chain expansion. Drawing on a synthesis of existing research and the formulation of key propositions, the study applies its framework to three case studies from the Gulf region, offering insights transferable to worldwide industrial contexts. The findings underscore a critical insight: technology alone is not sufficient. Without genuine green governance and an organizational culture embedded in sustainability and agility, technological investments risk becoming ineffective, or worse, tools that mask unsustainable practices under the guise of innovation. The analysis highlights the importance of strategic alignment among technology investments, corporate strategies, and policy frameworks. When such alignment is achieved, new business models can emerge. By deploying technology strategically, firms can unlock value through by-product monetization and resource sharing, particularly in renewable energy systems. These benefits are further enhanced by horizontal collaboration and strong support for distributed R&D ecosystems. This work contributes to the international discourse on sustainable industrial transformation by offering scalable governance insights applicable across global petrochemical and other capital-intensive industries.
供应链可持续性、韧性与技术创新之间的相互作用在应对全球环境和市场干扰方面变得愈发重要。现有文献强调,这种协同作用在增强适应性的同时减少了负面环境影响,因为供应链既可能是脆弱性的来源,也可能是价值创造的驱动力。在供应链扩张期间,这一点尤为关键,因为可持续性和韧性必须同步提升。然而,支持使能技术整合所需的内部和外部治理及政策框架仍未得到充分探索,尤其是在石油化工等资本密集型行业,由于其广泛的环境足迹和战略经济作用,该行业在全球具有重大意义。本研究探讨了适应性治理和政策机制如何促进技术创新的整合,以实现可持续和有韧性的供应链扩张。该研究借鉴现有研究的综合成果并提出关键命题,将其框架应用于海湾地区的三个案例研究,提供了可推广至全球工业背景的见解。研究结果强调了一个关键观点:仅靠技术是不够的。如果没有真正的绿色治理以及融入可持续性和敏捷性的组织文化,技术投资可能会变得无效,甚至更糟,成为以创新为幌子掩盖不可持续做法的工具。分析突出了技术投资、企业战略和政策框架之间战略一致性的重要性。当实现这种一致性时,新的商业模式就会出现。通过战略性地部署技术,企业可以通过副产品货币化和资源共享来释放价值,特别是在可再生能源系统中。横向合作以及对分布式研发生态系统的大力支持进一步增强了这些益处。这项工作通过提供适用于全球石油化工及其他资本密集型行业的可扩展治理见解,为关于可持续工业转型的国际讨论做出了贡献。