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Abstract:
Sustainability is an issue that is moving up the agenda of global organizations and attracts scholarly interest from diverse disciplines. Considerations regarding improvements in sustainability encompass numerous critical business functions including supply chain management. Supply chain managers are in a position to make a significant contribution to efforts aimed at improving the sustainability of enterprises. All three pillars of sustainable development ? economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability ? are effected by how supply chain processes work. Information technology, being both an enabler of sustainability initiatives and a supply chain driver, is an essential player in this equation. Through investments in information technology, collaboration between supply chain partners and performance of processes can be enhanced. This study attempts to develop a conceptual model to define and explore the effects of information technology investments on organizational and supply chain sustainability, with a focus on supply chain processes. The integrative framework has the potential to offer new insights to enrich theory on sustainable supply chain management research domain.

Keywords: supply chain management, sustainability, information technology, supply chain processes

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