Sustainable supply chain management in the global coffee industry: bibliometric analysis and research agenda
摘要
Coffee is one of the most important agricultural cash crops worldwide. However, recently, the industry is entertaining various sustainability challenges. As a result, sustainability has become a critical focus area for scholars, driving extensive investigation into triple bottom lines. However, the results of previous studies are fragile, making it challenging to understand the intellectual, conceptual, and knowledge domains. Hence, this study aimed to identify current and emerging research trends, provide a comprehensive map of the intellectual structure, and craft future research directions for sustainable coffee industry. To do this, topic based search for title, keywords, and abstract was done to extract articles from Scopus database. A criteria based review of the articles has been done to select sample articles relevant to the domain of analysis. A total of 685 articles published from 2015 to 2024 were selected for analysis. Both performance analysis and science mapping were used to address research questions. Descriptive methods were used to depict the performance analysis. Keyword co-occurrence, cluster analysis, and thematic mapping were used to depict science mapping and craft future research directions. VOSviewer and Biblioshiny software were used to visualize the results. The result indicated that performance of research publication is increasing with average annual growth rate of 25.9%. Science mapping indicated 40 author keywords frequently mentioned in 6 clusters. Topics such as sustainability, certification, climate change, and coffee supply chain are the leading issues. Evolution of knowledge is evolving from traditional to more recent themes such as circular economy, spent coffee grounds, sustainable coffee production, coffee biomass, blockchain, life cycle assessment, valorization, coffee by-products, and traceability. This bibliometric analysis is expected to enrich, expand, and extend the novel insights with respect to sustainability within the global coffee industry while validating theoretical bases. Finally, this study has identified future research gaps that should get attention from future research endeavors.