Resumo

The search for growth and acceleration of industrial development means that countries have major conflicts between energy consumption and environmental protection. Enterprise supply chains suffer, and will still suffer, more pressure on natural resources and a resulting demand to utilize more green energy. Companies will experience increasing pressure from stakeholders to reduce the environmental impact of their activities (Jensen, Munksgaard & Arlbjørn, 2013). In addition, companies use this scenario to pressure their suppliers to adhere to such practices (Laari, Töyli & Ojala, 2017).

Where are the main research related to Green Supply Chain Management associated with innovation, who are the main authors working on this association of themes and what are the main journals ) that such research is published? The main objective of the research is to investigate the main associations between innovation studies and the green supply chain. As specific objectives are listed: (1) present the most cited authors in the main works of the area; (2) demonstrate the main localities that develop research with this focus; (3) list the main journals where such studies and authors published.

Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is an evolution of supply chain management with the aim of minimizing environmental impacts and increasing resource efficiency through all phases of the supply chain, starting with product acquisition until its final disposal after use (Song & Gao, 2018; Stefanelli, Jabbour & Jabbour, 2014; Mathiyazhagan, Govindan & Haq, 2013). Green innovation is the main driver of sustainable development, which seeks to reduce the negative environmental impacts caused at each stage of a product's life cycle (Wu, 2013; Dangelico & Pujari, 2010).

The main journals regarding the number of articles in the analyzed database are: Journal of Cleaner Production (6 articles), Sustainability (4 articles) and Benchmarking: an International Journal (4 articles). They are relevant journals in the area and this can be evidenced by the impact factor of each: Journal of Cleaner Production (5,651), Sustainability (2,075) and Benchmarking: an International Journal (1,97). Based on the analysis of the number of citations, we have: Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Environmental Management and Journal of Cleaner Production.

Relevant fact of this study was to demonstrate that there is a periphery that also develops research that associates the themes. The relevance of this finding can be highlighted by demonstrating the possibility of forming research partnerships and future cooperation networks for such studies, since for scientific research the union of study centers already consolidated with other centers of lesser importance can transform the reality of research developed in these peripheral points.

Basiri, Z., & Heydari, J. (2017). A mathematical model for green supply chain coordination with substitutable products. Journal of Cleaner Production, 145, 232-249. Dai, R., Zhang, J. and Tang, W. (2017). Cartelization or Cost-sharing? Comparison of cooperation modes in a green supply chain. Journal of Cleaner Production, 156, pp.159-173. Dangelico, R. and Pujari, D. (2010). Mainstreaming Green Product Innovation: Why and How Companies Integrate Environmental Sustainability. Journal of Business Ethics, 95(3), pp.471-486.