Industrial symbiosis (IS) has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers since 1972, with its inception in an industrial park in Kalundborg, Denmark. IS involves traditionally separate entities working collaboratively by exchanging wastes and sharing resources to gain competitive advantage. This collaboration among separate entities has a significant impact on the structure of supply chains and the relationships among the participating entities. In the literature, studies address IS from ecology, energy, environmental science, and materials management perspectives. However, there are not many papers that explore IS from the supply chain management perspective. In this paper, we first introduce the definition of symbiotic supply chains and provide a review and taxonomy of scholarly works in this area. We find that the majority of the researchers focus on self-organized and facilitated IS at the strategic/tactical symbiotic supply chain levels. Specifically, institutional capacity, i.e., qualitative factors that impact the capability of a group of firms to reach solutions, is explored extensively. Finally, we propose a research agenda that serves as a single source for researchers interested in exploring symbiotic supply chains.

自1972年成立以来，工业共生（IS）就在丹麦Kalundborg的工业园区中引起了从业者和研究人员的注意。IS涉及传统上独立的实体，它们通过交换废物和共享资源来合作以获得竞争优势，从而进行协作。各个实体之间的这种合作对供应链的结构以及参与实体之间的关系具有重大影响。在文献中，研究地址IS从生态学，能源，环境科学和材料管理的观点。但是，探索IS的论文很少从供应链管理的角度。在本文中，我们首先介绍共生供应链的定义，并对这一领域的学术著作进行回顾和分类。我们发现，大多数研究人员专注于战略/战术共生供应链水平上的自组织和促进IS。特别是，对机构能力，即影响一组公司达成解决方案能力的定性因素，进行了广泛的探讨。最后，我们提出了一个研究议程，作为有兴趣探索共生供应链的研究人员的单一资料来源。