“…The broad range of topics includes analyses of the drivers of supplier diversity programs (Worthington et al, 2008); development of frameworks for analyzing CSR practices in global supply chains (Andersen and Skjoett-Larsen, 2009); and development of a sustainable purchasing portfolio model that reflects the ''triple bottom line'' (people, profit, planet) as the measure of sustainability performance (Pagell et al, 2010). While some of these studies suggested public procurement as an important factor (see, for example, Worthington et al, 2008), it remained largely unexamined. The literature on supplier management and CSR is also relevant to the extent that it examines explicit attempts by firms to influence and manage the CSR of external entities (i.e., their suppliers, associated systems, and processes) Pedersen and Andersen, 2006;Reuter et al, 2010;Spence and Bourlakis, 2009).…”