Editorial: Journey to sustainable supply chains: insights from the 26th ISL

Journey to sustainable supply chains: insights from the 26th ISLSupply chain sustainability has attracted increasing attention from academics, the business community and policymakers over the recent years.It is increasingly recognised that systems thinking and co-design methodologies, involving a range of stakeholders, have a key role to play in designing a more sustainable supply chain (Fritz, 2022).Building on a long tradition, bridging research and practice, the 26th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL) provided a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners to discuss and debate the journey to sustainable supply chains.In doing so, papers addressed a range of topics, including sustainability in logistics, resilience, digitalisation, supply chain analytics, customer-supplier relationships, stakeholder management and logistics network design and management.Over the course of the symposium, 68 research papers were presented.Building on experience of a virtual ISL in 2021, the ISL 2022 offered a hybrid environment, with about 40% of the papers presented virtually.This facilitated access and continued the international character of the ISL community with participation from 26 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.The environment created resulted in interactive sessions, the exchange of perspectives and knowledge generation.A rigorous peer review process was followed by the ISL special issue editorial panel, based on a combination of their reading of the conference papers, attending presentations and assessment of feedback from session chairs.An initial desk review was then undertaken by the guest editors, after which 14 authors were invited to submit papers.Following the peer-review process prescribed by the International Journal of Logistics Management, and in line with its editorial policy, we have the final cluster of five papers accepted and presented in this special issue.These papers address key supply chain sustainability areas of circular supply chains, urban logistics, cold chain efficiency and related topics of resilience and business improvement.The need to transition from a linear, take-make-waste to a circular economy has gained momentum in recent years (Suchek et al., 2021;Hazen et al., 2021).In this respect, the clothing supply chain has drawn attention, not least due to various incidents such as the Rana Plaza fire of 2013, but also due to the involvement of a range of for-profit and not-for-profit/third sector stakeholders.In the first paper, Pal and Sandberg explore the antecedents of uncaptured value in circular supply chains of post-consumer used clothing.In doing so, they draw on a multidimensional conceptualisation of value that extends beyond economic value and recognise environmental and social benefits.This extended value perspective highlights the prevalence of uncaptured value in the environmental and social dimensions.To address this, their work adopts a multi-stakeholder approach and employs a value mapping tool that identifies uncaptured value and value opportunities.Furthermore, they consider strategies that can be employed to generate opportunities to capture value.This study illustrates the value of a multistakeholder method that explicitly addresses nuanced views of different types of value generated.The stakeholder analysis highlights that an actor may be both a "source" and/or a "target" of the value generated.Furthermore, from an ecosystem perspective, the authors illustrate the "coopetition" effect between different stakeholder groups, e.g.competing to secure supply of high-quality items via collection channels and, due to the complementarity of resources and availability of skills, collaboration in other activities, such as sorting.