Sustainable Operations under Disruption

This review examines sustainable operations under disruption. The organizing question is how firms can balance continuity, emissions, worker welfare, inventory, and supplier viability during shocks. Ten related scholarly sources are synthesized through a decision-centered framework spanning problem definition, mechanism, measurement, evaluation, implementation, and governance. The review does not invent experiments, pooled estimates, or unreported quantitative results. It instead evaluates the strength and transferability of the available evidence, with particular attention to improving short-term continuity by transferring environmental or social costs. The resulting framework links technical or empirical performance to explicit use conditions and identifies tests that should precede wider adoption in resilient and responsible operations management.

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