Social responsibility and supply chain relationships

Carter, Craig R.; Jennings, Marianne M.

doi:10.1016/s1366-5545(01)00008-4

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“…Scholars have proposed different measures of SCSS (Carter and Jennings, 2002;Corbiere-Nicollier et al 2011;Kozlowski et al, 2015;Domingues et al, 2015), both quantitative and qualitative (Andersen and Larsen, 2009;Tate et al, 2010;Yusuf et al, 2013). These measures differ across countries and contexts (Gugler and Shi, 2009;Huq et al, 2014), whereas their majority is supplier performance oriented (Carter and Jennings, 2002;Lu et al, 2012;Ahi and Searcy, 2015b;Silvestre, 2015a).…”

Section: Supply Chain Social Sustainability and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

et al. 2016

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Research on social sustainability in developing countries has recently gained importance for both academics and practitioners. Studies in the supply chain management field take either a supplier or a manufacturer perspective that address predominantly corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues referring to the internal stakeholders. Our research integrates the literature on supplier, manufacturer, and customer responsibility and proposes the concept of supply chain social sustainability (SCSS) that refers to addressing social issues within the overall (upstream and downstream) supply chain. Furthermore, we develop and empirically validate scales for measuring SCSS using in-depth interviews and a survey in the Indian manufacturing industry. Our results suggest that SCSS consists of six underlying dimensions, namely equity, safety, health and welfare, philanthropy, ethics, human rights, in a 20-item valid and reliable scale. We discuss the implications of the findings for research and practice and suggest future research avenues.

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Section: Supply Chain Social Sustainability and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

et al. 2016

Ecological Indicators

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“…In fact, the idea for this conceptual framework is based on prior ethics and CSR research, especially on the concept of purchasing social responsibility (PSR). Carter and Jennings (2002) define PSR as the involvement of the purchasing manager in CSR activities such as human rights and philanthropy. Despite its absence on the main path, we believe their contribution is also crucial in terms of explaining the infusion of CSR issues into purchasing and supply management.…”

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“…On the other hand, this result clearly supports our earlier statement that ethical sourcing studies are still in the early stage focusing more on developing new theory. In fact, some of the prior studies are focused on the consequences of corporate ethical sourcing, including buyer satisfaction (Akamp and Müller 2013;Carter 2000;Kaynak and Sert 2012), supplier performance like capabilities (Carter and Jennings 2002;Ehrgott et al 2011), buyer reputation (Eltantawy et al 2009), relationship performance (Gonzalez-Padron et al 2008;Leonidou et al 2013), and supplier compliance (Jiang 2009). However, it is only lately that authors have begun to direct attention towards the financial effects of ethical sourcing.…”

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

2016

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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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“…For the first concern, Carter and Jennings [29] find a positive relationship between the buyer's CSR purchases and the supplier's economic performance with a sample collected through e-mail surveys. Golicic and Smith's [30] meta-analysis reveals that the link between environmental supply chain practices and market-based, operational-based, and accounting-based forms of firm performance is both positive and significant.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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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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Social responsibility and supply chain relationships

Cited by 359 publications

References 51 publications

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

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

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

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