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of sustainable supply chains, equivalent to other entities directly involved in the
supply chain. The examples of practical CSR projects prove that logistics service
providers strongly affecting other entities outside the industry focus on this topic.
Keywords Logistics industry · Logistics service providers · CSR projects · Supply
chain sustainability
1 Introduction
Milton Friedman, the elder statesman of “Chicago School” economics, has argued
that social initiatives are “fundamentally subversive”, because they undermine the
profit-seeking purpose of public companies The State of Corporate Citizenship in
the US ( 2005 , p. 2). On the basis of the ongoing series of surveys conducted in the
United States, it can be claimed that the most business leaders have charted a dif-
ferent course than Friedman. The attitudes and actions of businesses—regardless
of size, sector, or region—show that businesses play a wide-ranging role in our
society and should participate in corporate social responsibility actions.
The issue of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), expands currently in theory
and practice on partner's, customer's, supplier's, logistic operator's and trade
agent's behaviors in a supply chain. It is thus, justified to consider CSR in terms of
vertical and horizontal integrated Caroll's ( 1979 , 1991 ) pyramids, representing
each stakeholder. 1
Globalization and internationalization of practices and global trends in sup-
ply chain management (Next-Generation Supply Chains 2013 ; Outlook on the
Logistics & Supply Chain Industry 2013 ) point that logistic sector can play a cru-
cial role as an integrator and diffusor of socially responsible actions.
2 Conceptual Framework of a Sustainable Supply Chain
In order to identify issues discussed within the framework of sustainability supply chain
concept and to evaluate the increase of the interest in this science discipline the
literature review have been conducted. As a source of the research Web of Science data
base was chosen, including Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
—1945-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—1956-present; Arts &
Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)—1975-present; Conference Proceedings Citation
1 The United Nations Global Compact ( 2010 , p. 7) refers to supply chain sustainability (SSC) and
defines this as “the management of environmental, social and economic impacts and the encour-
agement of good governance practices, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services. The objec-
tive of supply chain sustainability is to create, protect and grow long-term environmental, social
and economic value for all stakeholders involved in bringing products and serves to markets”.