Scope
Supply chains are at the center of two interconnected transformations: the digital transition and the green transition. Together, these transformations, often referred to as the twin transition, are reshaping how organizations design processes, coordinate ac vi es, manage resources, and create value across increasingly complex networks. Digital technologies can support more sustainable and resilient supply chains by improving visibility, traceability, forecasting, collaboration, and decision-making. At the same me, their adoption raises important questions concerning energy consumption, data governance, cybersecurity, organizational capabilities, social inclusion, and responsible innovation.
This workshop focuses on the role of information systems and digital technologies in enabling, shaping, and governing the twin transition in supply chains. Its core focus is the interplay between digitalization and sustainability across interorganizational supply chain contexts, including the synergies, tensions, and trade-offs that emerge from their interaction. It welcomes conceptual, empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented contributions that examine how digitalization and sustainability can be pursued in a coordinated way across supply chain, value chain, and ecosystem contexts.
Contributions may address the use of digital technologies to reduce environmental impacts, support circularity, improve resource efficiency, strengthen social sustainability, enhance resilience, and create more transparent and accountable forms of interorganizational collaboration.
The workshop adopts a socio-technical and ecosystem perspective. From this perspective, the twin transition is not understood as a purely technological process or as the simultaneous adoption of digital and environmental initiatives. Rather, it involves interactions among technologies, organizational structures, managerial practices, institutional arrangements, infrastructures, and stakeholder relationships. Attention is therefore given to how supply chain actors develop shared objectives, exchange data, coordinate decisions, and govern digital infrastructures across organizational and geographical boundaries.
Of particular interest are studies examining how digital platforms, interconnected information systems, intelligent technologies, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital twins, automation, cloud computing, and collaborative technologies can contribute to supply chain transformation. Relevant applications include improving supply chain visibility and traceability, monitoring environmental and social performance, supporting circular and low-carbon business models, optimizing transport and resource use, managing disruptions, and enabling more informed and responsible decision-making.
The workshop also recognizes that digitalization does not automatically lead to sustainability. Digital solutions may generate new environmental costs, increase dependence on infrastructures and technology providers, reinforce inequalities, or create risks related to surveillance, privacy, cybersecurity, and data ownership. The workshop, therefore, welcomes critical research on the conditions under which digital technologies contribute to the objectives of the twin transition. Topics of interest include digital capabilities, interoperability, data quality, trust, cybersecurity, privacy, ethical and legal compliance, accountability, digital inclusion, responsible artificial intelligence, and the alignment between digital strategies and sustainability objectives.
Contributions may examine a wide range of supply chain, value-chain, and ecosystem contexts, including manufacturing, logistics and mobility, retail and e-commerce, agrifood, fisheries, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, construction, tourism and hospitality, maritime and port ac vi es, public services, and urban or smart-city ecosystems. Studies may focus on global, regional, or local challenges and may draw on perspectives from information systems, management, marketing, logistics, operations management, sociology, sustainability studies, engineering, public policy, and related fields.
By bringing these perspectives together, the workshop seeks to advance understanding of how the digital and green transitions interact in supply chain settings. It aims to create a forum for discussing theoretical developments, empirical evidence, methodological approaches, and practical experiences that can support more sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and collaborative supply chain ecosystems. Contributions with implications for organizations, policymakers, technology developers, and other supply chain stakeholders are particularly encouraged.
Beyond presenting individual technological applications, the workshop seeks to simulate discussion on the organizational, interorganizational and societal conditions under which digital technologies can generate meaningful and responsible sustainability outcomes.
Topics of interest
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Artificial intelligence, analytics, and decision support for sustainable supply chains
• Blockchain and distributed technologies for traceability and responsible supply chains
• Circular economy, reverse logistics, and digital product life cycles
• Data governance, cybersecurity, privacy, ethics, and trust
• Digital capabilities, technology adoption, and organizational readiness for the twin transition
• Digital platforms and ecosystem-based supply chain coordination
• Digital technologies enabling the twin transition in supply chains
• Digital transformation and supply chain sustainability
• Informa on systems for sustainable and resilient supply chain management
• Internet of Things and connected supply chain ecosystems
• Interorganizational information systems, data sharing, and collaborative governance
• Low-carbon logistics, transportation, and mobility systems
• Social sustainability, digital inclusion, and responsible digital transformation
• Supply chain visibility, transparency, and sustainability performance measurement
Organizing Committee
· Sandra Filipe, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; +351 966 217 577;
· Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; +351 934 681 128,
· Elisabete Vieira, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; +351 916 012 770,
· Cláudia Ribau, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; +351 963 001 212,
· Manuel Carlos Nogueira, Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal; +351 934 508 677,
Program Committee
- Abhilasha Agarwal, Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India;
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- Carrizo Moreira, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
- Cesario Mateus, Aalborg University Business School;
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- Jolanta Maj, Opole University of Technology;
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