Integrating Theory and Practice in Regenerative Supply Chain Management: An Integrative Review and Use‐Case Synthesis

This integrative review explores the evolution of sustainability in supply chain management and positions regenerative supply chain within the strong sustainability paradigm. It adopts a transdisciplinary approach, unfolding in two parallel stages. The first stage includes an integrative literature review that draws on disciplines beyond supply chain management, including organisational studies, industrial ecology, agriculture, tourism and the built environment. The second stage synthesises use cases of strategies successfully implemented by firms worldwide. The review also offers a working definition of regenerative supply chain, and advances the discourse on sustainability in supply chain management. By synthesising existing scholarship on regenerative supply chains alongside the broader paradigmatic shift towards regeneration, and by examining the strategies firms use, this review introduces the phased‐gate approach, which forms five sequential phases that bridge theory and practice. This review specifically focuses on contributing to SDG ‐12, 13, 14 and 15.