Social issues in supply chains: Capabilities link responsibility, risk (opportunity), and performance

Klassen, Robert D.; Vereecke, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.01.021

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“…Increasingly, socially responsible procurement practices incorporate activities outside the supply chain including benefits to communities or providing social programs such as healthcare or education for those not directly employed in the supply chain (Klassen and Vereecke 2012).…”

Section: Socially Responsible Supply Chain Practice Adoptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…involving its supplier Pegatron, on the outskirts of Shanghai, and child labor in its tin supply chain in Bangka, Indonesia (Bilton 2014;Klassen and Vereecke 2012). Previously, companies could hide behind a denial of responsibility or knowledge of such practices on the part of their suppliers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We expect that the adoption of socially responsible procurement practices will be different to the adoption of environmental supply chain practices. Environmental practices are widely implemented, standardized and reported due to the extensive adoption of environment management systems such as ISO 14001 as well as more stringent environmental regulations requiring standardized environmental reporting, while social management systems and regulations lag behind (Klassen and Vereecke 2012). Furthermore, the impact of socially responsible procurement practices appears to have immediate effects on workers in the supply chain.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Formal monitoring can help uncover deficits of suppliers at an early stage. In particular, it can provide a buyer with capabilities that a competitor would be unable to copy quickly Reuter et al 2010), while preventing their brand image tarnished by suppliers' misconduct (Awaysheh and Klassen 2010;Klassen and Vereecke 2012). However, such monitoring does not lead to greater supplier compliance (Boyd et al 2007;Baden et al 2009;Lim and Phillips 2008;Jiang 2009).…”

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Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

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The purpose of this study is to present a rigorous, focused review on how this field of ethical sourcing research has grown and evolved over the decades, providing implications for future research. We combine two research methodologies in this study: a systematic literature review and a citation network analysis. The former is used as a scientific tool to select the most relevant ethical sourcing articles, while the latter is then applied as a research technique to analyse these selected articles. Such a combined approach allows for a rigorous investigation into this field of research in a more scientific and objective way. Based on this approach, we identify (1) distinctive features of ethical sourcing studies such as growth trends and content issues; (2) important articles that have played a significant role in developing this field; (3) evolutionary paths that show how its knowledge has been created and transferred; (4) emerging trends that have received growing attention in the recent literature; (5) main research areas that underlie the entire ethical sourcing studies; and (6) major implications that need to be pursued in future research. The results of this study provide not only the current status of the literature but also the patterns of evolution in this field of research, thus contributing to the existing literature.

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“…From the NRBV perspective, the development of the green capabilities motivates firms to shift from the reactive to the proactive end of environmental strategies, in which they develop preventive approaches instead of using end-of-pipe solutions to deal with environmental problems (Fraj, Martınez and Matute, 2013;Li et al, 2016). However, from a sustainability perspective, the NRBV is fragmented because it ignores the social (Klassen and Vereecke, 2012) and the economic dimensions. More importantly, the synergistic effect of a simultaneous implementation of different kinds of sustainability practices on capability development is not captured in the NRBV.…”

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Short-term versus long-term benefits: Balanced sustainability framework and research propositions

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Abdulrahman

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Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Sustainability research has been expanding rapidly during recent decades. Such research takes various forms with the identification of mixed results. Even though there are several review articles on sustainability with valuable insights, the time dimension aspect of sustainability is totally missing in addition to lack of well-developed framework. This paper systematically reviews previous sustainability studies published in the refereed scientific journals for the past two decades to understand the evolution of sustainability issues in the business context and solutions proposed until now. The study categorizes the popular sustainability practices into short-and long-term practices based on the time effect, and link them with different forms of organizational capabilities and sustainability performance. The paper further proposes a two-dimensional sustainability framework that incorporates practices, capabilities and performance, and the balancing issues between short-and long-term sustainability. At the end, it suggests potential research directions for future research as well. Graphical abstract Highlights We systematically reviews the past two decades sustainability studies published in the refereed scientific journals  We use time dimension to classify and understand sustainability benefits Review of sustainability theories, practices, capabilities, and performance Classification of sustainability practices, capabilities, and sustainability performance Model & propositions development We categorized sustainability practices and performances into short-and long-term perspectives for effective managerial decisions  We propose research propositions relating firm's capability and its implementation of shortand long-term sustainability practices and sustainability performance.  We draw attention to the future role of organizational capabilities and their interactions with sustainability practices to achieve better performance.

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Social issues in supply chains: Capabilities link responsibility, risk (opportunity), and performance

Cited by 502 publications

References 36 publications

Piggy in the Middle: How Direct Customer Power Affects First-Tier Suppliers’ Adoption of Socially Responsible Procurement Practices and Performance

Piggy in the Middle: How Direct Customer Power Affects First-Tier Suppliers’ Adoption of Socially Responsible Procurement Practices and Performance

Ethical Sourcing: An Analysis of the Literature and Implications for Future Research

Short-term versus long-term benefits: Balanced sustainability framework and research propositions

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