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1. Introduction
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 (Ahmed and Najmi, 2018; Kronborg Jensen et al., 2013). In addition, companies use this scenario to pressure their suppliers to adhere to such practices (Laari et al., 2017).
Restricted by environmental protection policies and motivated by high consumer demand for green products, manufacturers begin by engaging in green activities to improve the energy efficiency of products (Zhu et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2016). However, “industries still struggle to identify barriers hindering Green Supply Chain Management implementation” (Gonvidan et al., 2014), such as eco-innovation barriers and a broad of human key factors (Jabbour et al., 2015a).
In this process of engagement and minimization of environmental impact, designing and producing ecologically correct products, several methodologies are used to quantify the environmental impact in the supply chain and to identify opportunities to implement improvements. To that end, green supply chain management (GSCM) stands out (Zhang et al., 2016; Sehnema et al., 2015). GSCM can be seen as environmental management activities associated with sustainable technological innovation (Song and Gao, 2018; Zhu et al., 2012).
Supported by a continuous rising of academic and practitioner interest in supply chain management (Seuring and Müller, 2008), this paper has the following question: Where are the main research related to GSCM associated with innovation, who are the main authors working on this association of themes and what are the main journals? The main objective of the research is to investigate the main associations between innovation and GSCM, 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 their research.
Such research is justified by demonstrating the direction of scientific research within the area, demonstrating where there is convergence for innovation in actions related to...