The Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management group unites researchers from various domains of supply chain management, including strategic management, maritime, marketing, digital transformation, and engineering. The planned activities encompass academic lectures, scientific publications, academy-industry collaborations, and the execution of national and international projects focused on sustainable green logistics, green ports, the blue economy, maritime sustainability, circular economy, and sustainable consumption behaviors.
These activities aim to enhance both academic research and industry practices within the realm of sustainable supply chain management.
Group members are already actively involved in sustainability-related efforts, some of which are presented below:
- Karakas, Serkan, Mehmet Kirmizi, and Batuhan Kocaoglu. "Yard block assignment, internal truck operations, and berth allocation in container terminals: Introducing carbon-footprint minimisation objectives." Maritime Economics & Logistics (2021): 1-22.
- Karakas, Serkan, A. Zafer Acar, and Mehmet Kirmizi. "Maritime Sustainability: Navigating Complex Challenges and Ecological Footprints." Sustainable Development Seen Through the Lenses of Ethnoeconomics and the Circular Economy. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. 19-47.
- Acar, A. Zafer, Önden, İsmail & Kara, Karahan (2015) Evaluating the location of regional return centers in reverse logistics through integration of GIS, AHP and Integer programming, Int’l J. Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 22(4), 399-411. (WoS SCI-Exp., Scopus)
- Acar, A. Zafer, Önden, İsmail and Gürel, Özlem (2016) Evaluation of the parameters of the green supplier selection decision in textile industry, Fibres & Textiles in Eastern Europe, 24(5-119), 8-14, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5604/123036... (WoS SCI-Exp., Scopus)
- Danış, Metin, Acar, A. Zafer, and Arslan, Aykut (2022). Is the use of green port certification strategic or not? TransNav - The International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, 16, 2, 203-209, DOI: 10.12716/1001.16.02.01 (WoS ESCI, Scopus)
- Kaya, Ahmet, & Acar, A. Zafer, (2022). Unsustainable supply chain of sustainable food companies. Journal of Management, Marketing and Logistics (JMML), 9(4), 165-172, DOI: https://doi.org/10.17261/Press...
- Kara, Karahan, Yalçın, Galip Cihan, Acar, A. Zafer, Simic, Vladimir, Konya, Serkan & Pamucar, Dragan (2023) The MEREC-AROMAN method for determining sustainable competitiveness levels: A case study for Turkey. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 101762, ahead of print, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps... (SSCI/SCIE, Scopus)
- Kara, Karahan, Acar, A. Zafer, Polat, Mustafa, Önden, İsmail, & Yalçın, Galip Cihan (2024) Developing a hybrid methodology for green-based supplier selection: Application in the automotive industry, Expert Systems with Application, 249, 123668. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa... (SCIE, Scopus)
- Kara, Karahan, Acar, A. Zafer, & Yalçın, Galip Cihan (2024) Selection of a green supply chain management strategy with grey-based Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods, International Journal of Logistics System and Management, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLSM.... (Scopus)
- Temizçeri, F. Talya, & Acar, A. Zafer (2024). Green logistics: A new frontier for economic growth and social development in Türkiye and Poland, in Badar, A., Gupta, R., Srivastava, P., Cudney, E. (eds) Handbook of Digital Innovation, Transformation, and Sustainable Development in a Post-Pandemic Era. CRC Press Books - Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), Boca Raton, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003438748-10, pp.160-184. (Scopus)
- Kabadayı, Ebru Tümer, İnci Dursun, Alev Koçak Alan, and Ahmet Tuğrul Tuğer. "Green purchase intention of young Turkish consumers: Effects of consumer's guilt, self-monitoring and perceived consumer effectiveness." Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 207 (2015): 165-174.
- Dursun, I., Ebru TÜMER Kabadayi, and A. T. Tuger. "Application of value-belief-norm theory to responsible post consumption behaviors: Recycling and reuse." In Proceedings of the International Congress of the New Approaches and Technologies for Sustainable Development, Isparta, Turkey, pp. 21-24. 2017.
- Dinç, K., The importance and effects of reverse logistics activities for the retail companies, IX International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress, Yaşar Üniversitesi, İzmir, 2011
- Dinç, K., An Approach to Derive Benefits from Item Based RFID to Improve Manual Reverse Logistics Processes, V.International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability, Izmir, 2012