Table 3.

SLR criteria

Inclusion Criteria		Exclusion Criteria
Supply Chain and alternative definitions	Covering the extent of Supply Chain and related definitions (e.g., Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management, Procurement, S&OP)	Title Only	Excluded are all other search elements besides title (TI) to understand the prevalence of Systems Thinking as a primary focus in the literature
Systems Thinking / Theory	Systems thinking and associated methodologies (e.g., Systems Dynamics, Soft Systems Methodologies, Viable Systems Model)	Conference, Opinion and Working Papers	Lacking empirical rigour and substantiation that could provide significant bias
Search Timeframe	Research published from 1956 (from the inception of General System Theory) to March 2020	Non-English Based Publication	English only papers (unless translated)
Publication in peer-reviewed	The inherent quality of a peer review papers given as opposed to conference, opinion and working papers	Un-validated Journals	Unless validated through their presence in Scimago, Incites or ABCD journal ranking mechanisms