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Sustainability along the Value Chain: Collaborative Approaches and their Impact on Firm Performance

“…With the growing visibility of corporate misconduct in managing boundary-less organizations (Mamic 2005) and an ever-increasing emphasis on the value of relational approaches to business (Daboub, Calton 2002), both research and practice have started to be concerned with the search of innovative approaches to SCM based on more than tracking products and materials' paths throughout the stages of the value chain. In this sense, attention has been progressively addressed to the beneficial impact of implementing social and environmental practices across organizational boundaries, through the establishment of collaborative governance models (Drake, Schlachter 2008;Perrini, Vurro 2006).…”

“…The search for renewed approaches to SCM based on the discretionary allocation of corporate resources toward the improvement of cross-boundary social and environmental performance has been the most direct result of the disaggregation of the value chain due to the progressive specialization of firms on single competence areas (Daboub, Calton 2002;Faraoni, Petretto 2009). In fact, while turning into economic gains, subsequent waves of outsourcing and sub-contracting have lead to a general loss of control over the stages of the production and distribution processes.…”

“…Rather it needs to be declined in a way that takes into account the specific characteristics of involved actors (Daboub, Calton 2002;Rasche, Esser 2006;Rowley 1997).…”

Governance and different types of value: A framework for analysis

“…Contracts, authority and cooperation have been identified as complementary mechanisms aimed at coordinating resources [Borzaga, Sacchetti and Tortia, 2016;Grandori, 1997b;cf. also Bekker, 2014;Daboub and Calton, 2002;Jackson and Thelen, n.d.;Wu, Hsia and Huo, 2015]. Scholars emphasise that the use of more than one mechanism reflects not only the existence of multiple and diverse production problems and situational contexts [AUTHORS 2019] but also multiple motivations and behavioural attitudes [Adler et al, 2009;Pittz and Adler, 2016].…”