Sustainability, risk and performance in textile and apparel supply chains

This study systematically reviews 127 papers on sustainable supply chain management in the textile and apparel (T & A) industry. Gaps and trends in related research are determined in a content analysis according to structural dimensions and analytic categories of research method, supply chain management and sustainability and also risk and performance. We observe a methodological focus on empirical research and a geographical one on (South) East Asia. We find a balance between intra-and inter-organizational studies and between studies on financial and reputational impacts. Assessments of environmental risks and green performance dominate over social factors. A contingency analysis reveals that the management of economic risks on the one hand and noneconomic, i.e. environmental and social ones, on the other hand is disjoint. The two topics show hardly any integration with each other. Based on the detected contingent factors, we conceptualize a framework for sustainable supply chain risk management in the T & A industry.