Social and environmental risk management in supply chains: a survey in the clothing industry

Freise, Matthias; Seuring, Stefan

doi:10.1007/s12159-015-0121-8

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“…It seems logical to subordinate the two approaches to sustainable risk management. In line with the findings of Freise and Seuring [3], it has been found that both assessment and collaboration have a positive impact on environmental and social performance [19]. Moreover, other forerunning researchers [9,[32][33][34] in socially related research found that increased involvement by purchasing managers in socially responsible activities leads to an enhanced supplier performance [34].…”

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“…These facts automatically lead to increased pressure on apparel retailers to achieve lower costs and shorter lead times, resulting in poor labor standards in the supply chain [4,42]. As a consequence, apparel supply chains are becoming increasingly global [1,43], and the rising level of outsourcing to developing countries [44] has emphasized the focus on sustainability [3][4][5][6]13,45].…”

Section: The Apparel Industry As the Field Of Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In simplified terms, with its global reach, apparel supply chains appear to be is increasingly complex, globally dispersed and highly dynamic [3,4,17,21,51]. Hence, lack of transparency within the apparel supply chain is a consequence [41,52,53].…”

Section: The Apparel Industry As the Field Of Applicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As textile/apparel supply chains are becoming increasingly global [1], the rising level of outsourcing to developing countries has placed increasing focus on sustainability [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Therefore, the need to understand how to integrate sustainability into globally fragmented supply chains is highly important [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the need to understand how to integrate sustainability into globally fragmented supply chains is highly important [3].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile and Apparel Industry—A Literature Review

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So far, a vast amount of studies on sustainability in supply chain management have been conducted by academics over the last decade. Nevertheless, socially related aspects are still neglected in the related discussion. The primary motivation of the present literature review has arisen from this shortcoming, thus the key purpose of this study is to enrich the discussion by providing a state-of-the-art, focusing exclusively on social issues in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) by considering the textile/apparel sector as the field of application. The authors conduct a literature review, including content analysis which covers 45 articles published in English peer-reviewed journals, and proposes a comprehensive map which integrates the latest findings on socially related practices in the textile/apparel industry with the dominant conceptualization in order to reveal potential research areas in the field. The results show an ongoing lack of investigation regarding the social dimension of the triple bottom line in SSCM. Findings indicate that a company's internal orientation is the main assisting factor in sustainable supply chain management practices. Further, supplier collaboration and assessment can be interpreted as an offer for suppliers deriving from stakeholders and a focal company's management of social risk. Nevertheless, suppliers do also face or even create huge barriers in improving their social performance. This calls for more empirical research and qualitative or quantitative survey methods, especially at the supplier level located in developing countries.

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Section: The Apparel Industry As the Field Of Applicationmentioning

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the need to understand how to integrate sustainability into globally fragmented supply chains is highly important [3].…”

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Exploring the Framework Development Status for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Synthesis and Future Research Directions

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The need to integrate environmental and social aspects into the supply chain has created a debate amongst academicians and researchers on two topics: sustainability and the supply chain. A large number of journals and special volumes are publishing research that carries out a case study or survey, develops a mathematical model or builds a conceptual model/framework on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). However, classified analysis of articles that develop a framework on SSCM has not been carried out by any researcher. The study thus aims to review SSCM framework articles to identify the major contributions and gaps. A total of 92 framework articles on SSCM from the sample of 349 over a period of 19 years (1998–2016) are structurally analyzed to meet the objectives. The selected literature is categorized by novel or adapted framework, source of framework, framework verification, method used for framework verification and identifying the constructs/elements that build the structural framework. Analyzing the literature sample using these categories reveals that framework development in the context of SSCM is still an area with ample future opportunities. The findings of the study are especially interesting for academicians and practitioners to investigate the critical gaps in the field of sustainable supply chain management frameworks (SSCMFs). Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda

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Sustainability has emerged as an important industrial strategic outlook expanding beyond organizational boundaries to include the supply chain. Simultaneously, the industry has also been faced with supply chain resilience concerns. Research on the intersection of supply chain sustainability and resilience is nascent and is a consequence of their observed mutual influences. However, confusion about concepts, implementation methods, and measurements of sustainable and resilient supply chains remains. This study completes a systematic literature review that critically examines several major observations and directions. We find the concept of sustainable supply chains is more established, and general agreement on its theoretical foundations exists. Supply chain resilience is relatively less mature. The nexus and relationships between the two topics are often incoherent: there is confusion on sustainable and resilient supply chains establishment; there is no clarity on what practices could jointly advance both areas. A major conflict exists since sustainability generally focuses on efficiency, while resilience seeks effectiveness. We recommend studies to analyze implementation relationships and impact. We also observe that performance measurement systems should be developed to assess supply chain sustainability and resilience performance taking with explicit consideration time horizons considered in these measures.

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Social and environmental risk management in supply chains: a survey in the clothing industry

Cited by 107 publications

References 59 publications

Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile and Apparel Industry—A Literature Review

Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile and Apparel Industry—A Literature Review

Exploring the Framework Development Status for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Synthesis and Future Research Directions

Integrating sustainability and resilience in the supply chain: A systematic literature review and a research agenda

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