How Buyers' Attitudes Toward Supplier Diversity Affect Their Expenditures with Ethnic Minority Businesses

Blount, Ian; Li, Mingxiang

doi:10.1111/jscm.12237

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“…Scholars in the supplier diversity space, for example, have shown the importance and impacts of sourcing from firms owned and operated by racial minorities, highlighting supplier diversity as more than a social responsibility or equity and inclusion issue, but an approach with real supply chain performance impacts at stake (i.e. Blount and Li 2020).…”

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A Challenge in Our Time: Issues of Race in Supply Chain Management

Esper

Goldsby

Zinn

2020

J of Business Logistics

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T his editorial addresses one of the greatest challenges of our time-racial inequality. Logistics and supply chain management (SCM) factor prominently in people's everyday experiences, as consumers of products and logistics services as well as through participation in logistics and supply chain workforces. These everyday experiences can be quite disparate depending on one's race. As academics, we have a responsibility to peel back the layers of how these issues of race and diversity impact and interact with supply chain phenomena. This editorial is intended to bolster conversation around these issues. We identify compelling themes that merit consideration and, perhaps, deeper investigation, including race as an individual difference variable in our research, race in SCM talent and leadership, and race and racism in SCM execution. We also call for more research that addresses racial inclusion and equal access in other aspects of SCM in light of its far-reaching influence in the realms of business and society. The time has come to address these pervasive issues affecting organizations and individuals. We also introduce the articles appearing in the current issue of the journal.

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Section: Race As Representative Of An Individual Difference Variablementioning

confidence: 99%

A Challenge in Our Time: Issues of Race in Supply Chain Management

Esper

Goldsby

Zinn

2020

J of Business Logistics

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“…Diversity is the third most widely found CMS theme in SCM journals, and there has been an increasing interest in it in recent years, including topics such as gender (Ma et al , 2021), inequality (Blount and Li, 2021; Lawrence et al , 2018) and race (Gligor, 2020). According to Paiva et al (2020, p. 1):…”

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Can the supply chain management field be more critical? Building new bridges with critical management studies

Paiva,

Alcadipani,

Freitas

et al. 2023

SCM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how three core elements of critical management studies (CMSs), “de-naturalisation”, “reflexivity” and “(non)-performative intent”, can help expand the current debate in the supply chain management (SCM) field. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a systematic literature review to select 103 articles published in 12 high-ranking journals in the SCM field based on the Academic Journal Guide of the Chartered Association of Business Schools. Findings The findings of this study suggest that SCM studies can be narrowed down into four major CMSs themes: “power”, “ethics and environmental issues”, “diversity” and “working conditions”, but even these themes are still under-discussed and undertheorized in SCM. The literature the authors reviewed is more concerned with explaining these phenomena than questioning them and proposing new agendas. This paper, therefore, will discuss how these three core elements of CMS can help transform the “hidden” issues of SCM, which it will do by illustrating it in the context of buyer–supplier relationships and lean manufacturing. Practical implications This research will encourage SCM scholars who are interested in conducting more critical studies and teaching the harmful effects of global supply chains. Originality/value This paper highlights that a combination of SCM and CMS approaches is important when we decide to adopt a more critical “constructive” view of supply chain challenges and engage practical and critical views, respectively, to generate knowledge that not only increases (corporate) performance but also highlights social needs and values.

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“…To implement SRP, there is a need for concrete strategies in which social responsibility objectives are widely articulated and established (Brammer and Walker, 2011; Blount and Li, 2021). Purchasing needs to develop internal policies, set criteria that include social aspects, apply assurance practices, manage supplier relations, and build internal capacity (Leire and Mont, 2010).…”

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“…D&I should not be evaluated only in terms of organizations' leadership and workforce equality, but it should be applied throughout the supply chain (Kabongo et al ., 2013). Thus, purchasing plays an important role in the implementation of D&I beyond the company itself, as it can select and develop suppliers owned by minority groups, known as supplier diversity (SD) (Adobor and McMullen, 2007, 2014; Blount and Li, 2021).…”

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Supplier diversity for socially responsible purchasing: an empirical investigation in Brazil

Miguel

Tonelli²

2022

IJPDLM

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PurposeBased on a critical lens, this paper aims to empirically evaluate the adoption of programs to buy from minority suppliers (MS) and their outcomes in Brazil, considering a multi-stakeholder approach (buying companies, suppliers and third parties).Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected via an exploratory survey involving 109 buying companies and two case studies with 21 in-depth interviews.FindingsIt was revealed that supplier diversity (SD) in Brazil is still developing, and is more rhetoric than a practice promoting real change. The current traditional procurement mindset, the role of third parties, and the focus on supplier selection, rather than on supplier development prevents a social impact that could reduce inequality between MS and their counterparts.Originality/valuePrevious studies were focused on buying companies' perspective in advanced countries that have clear regulation for SD. By exploring the phenomenon in a country with great economic disparities and no regulation, and using a critical lens, this study highlights the difference between desired and effective implementation of social initiatives that promote inclusiveness.

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How Buyers' Attitudes Toward Supplier Diversity Affect Their Expenditures with Ethnic Minority Businesses

Cited by 27 publications

References 125 publications

A Challenge in Our Time: Issues of Race in Supply Chain Management

A Challenge in Our Time: Issues of Race in Supply Chain Management

Can the supply chain management field be more critical? Building new bridges with critical management studies

Supplier diversity for socially responsible purchasing: an empirical investigation in Brazil

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