SMEs' suppliers' practices and contractors' expectations on CSR management tools: the gap

Small and Medium Enterprises in the Sustainable Supply Chain: A Review

“…As presented above, the most important focus areas of scientific research in the field are as follows: motivational factors and barriers to the participation of SMEs, business models supporting green supply chains, Environmental Management Systems, Corporate Social Responsibility and the use of information and communication technologies. The issues of related to CSR (Ayuso et al, 2013;Delchet-Cochet and Azhar-Arnal, 2017;Musso and Risso, 2015) dealt with the integration of CSR into small and medium-sized companies and looked at the key factors of CSR adoption, CSR tools developed and applied by SMEs, and the use of CSR tools in SMEs developed by large companies (Ayuso et al, 2013;Delchet-Cochet and Azhar-Arnal, 2017;Lin and Lan, 2013;Musso and Risso, 2015). Results show that small and medium-sized companies can use the tools of CSR with positive effects on their operations.…”