NGOs’ Initiatives to Enhance Social Sustainability in the Supply Chain: Poverty Alleviation through Supplier Development Programs

Rodriguez, Jorge Andres; Thomsen, Cristina Giménez; Arenas, Daniel; Pagell, Mark

doi:10.1111/jscm.12104

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“…; Arnold and Valentin ), while Rodríguez et al. () focus their attention on the people living on between $2 and $3 a day. Furthermore, UNDP's Human Development Database also defines working poor who live under $2/day as a population in extreme poverty.…”

Section: Understanding the Base‐of‐pyramid Marketsmentioning

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Identifying Key Success Factors for Social Enterprises Serving Base‐of‐Pyramid Markets through Analysis of Value Chain Complexities

Pal

Altay

2019

J of Business Logistics

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There are people in this world who have little or no access to basic needs and they struggle financially, living on less than a handful of dollars a day. A better understanding of how to supply/serve the world's poor is needed. In this paper, through the lens of Porter's value chain framework we investigate the challenges and opportunities social enterprises face in base‐of‐pyramid (BoP) markets based on secondary data on 23 organizations. Our contribution is twofold: First, we analyze value chain complexities for the social enterprise based on the value creation role (consumer, coproducer) and income level (poverty, extreme poverty) of the local population. We find that nature of customers’ requirements varies across customer segments in the BoP markets and social enterprises face unique challenges in fulfilling such differentiated demand patterns. Second, we develop an affordability–accessibility framework that helps to identify the situations that may be favorable/unfavorable for social enterprises to meet the challenges in BoP markets. We make four propositions that social enterprises may use to cope with difficulties in affordability and accessibility. Our findings will be useful for such organizations to understand and design better supply chains for the base of pyramid.

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Section: Understanding the Base‐of‐pyramid Marketsmentioning

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“…They expand their scope of external environment when analyzing strategic alternatives and identifying stakeholders, cultivate new skills among traditionally overlooked stakeholders such as NGOs, and experiment with new business models and partnership structures (Tashman and Marano ; Rodríguez et al. ).…”

Section: Understanding the Base‐of‐pyramid Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying Key Success Factors for Social Enterprises Serving Base‐of‐Pyramid Markets through Analysis of Value Chain Complexities

Pal

Altay

2019

J of Business Logistics

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“…Therefore, the authors suggest future research could take a broader view beyond supply chain boundary when it comes to investigating sustainable issues in GS. For example, this can be related to supplier development programs implemented by NGOs for poverty alleviation, which considers both supply chain members and non-supply chain stakeholders [173].…”

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Sustainable Global Sourcing: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Jia

Yan

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainable Global Sourcing (SGS) is a rapidly emerging field with a geometric growth that is evidenced by the number of articles published within this field. The aim of this paper is to develop a systematic study quantitatively depicting the knowledge structure of the SGS field. A bibliometric analysis in conjunction with citation analysis and co-citation analysis is adopted to evaluate a total of 287 journal articles identified from systematic selection of influential work. A further content analysis is performed to obtain the detailed insights on the results of bibliometric analysis. Findings show five research clusters that constitute the SGS field, i.e., (i) Global Sourcing (GS) practice and environmental performance; (ii) Social sustainability/ethical sourcing practice in GS; (iii) Environmental evaluation criteria and certification; (iv) Fuzzy modelling of environmental practice in GS; (v) Effects of environmental and social sustainability practice on economic performance. On this basis, eight research directions are outlined for future research. This study provides an innovative method for systematic literature review work and robust indications for future investigations in the SGS field.

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“…The first line of authors focus on how the focal firm in a supply chain develops CSR approaches, procedures [16][17][18][19][20], and frameworks [21][22][23] to effectively manage other members' CSR conducts in order to meet the targeted economic, social, and environmental requirements for a sustainable supply chain.…”

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Signaling Product Quality Information in Supply Chains via Corporate Social Responsibility Choices

Xiao

et al. 2017

Sustainability

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This study focuses on how an upstream supplier signals the private information of its product quality with corporate social responsibility (CSR) choices to a downstream retailer and uninformed consumers in the final market. We build a signaling model to: capture the strategic interactions among the supplier, the retailer, and the final consumers in the supply chain; characterize completely the set of all separating perfect Bayesian equilibriums (PBEs); and finally, select a unique equilibrium that satisfies the intuitive criterion for exploring some comparative statics. The equilibrium results show that under some technical conditions: (1) a set of moderate levels of CSR conduct signal the upstream supplier's high quality in the sense of separating PBEs; (2) the unique separating PBE satisfying the intuitive criterion is the one with the lowest CSR level that separates a high-quality supplier from a low-quality supplier; (3) the lowest CSR level decreases in the proportion of informed consumers and the low-quality supplier's marginal CSR cost, but is independent of the high-quality supplier's marginal CSR cost; (4) the profits of the high-quality supplier increase in proportion to the number of informed consumers and the low-quality supplier's marginal cost CSR, but decrease in proportion to the high-quality supplier's marginal CSR cost. Managerial insights are also discussed.

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NGOs’ Initiatives to Enhance Social Sustainability in the Supply Chain: Poverty Alleviation through Supplier Development Programs

Cited by 131 publications

References 52 publications

Identifying Key Success Factors for Social Enterprises Serving Base‐of‐Pyramid Markets through Analysis of Value Chain Complexities

Identifying Key Success Factors for Social Enterprises Serving Base‐of‐Pyramid Markets through Analysis of Value Chain Complexities

Sustainable Global Sourcing: A Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Signaling Product Quality Information in Supply Chains via Corporate Social Responsibility Choices

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