The Impact of Affirmative Action Purchasing

Researching the Drivers of Socially Responsible Purchasing: A Cross-National Study of Supplier Diversity Initiatives

“…On the specific issue of promoting greater diversity within the supply chain, the relatively few existing studies are almost all based on U.S. experience in implementing programmes aimed at sourcing from minority and/or women-owned suppliers (Carter et al, 1999;Giuinipero, 1980Giuinipero, , 1981Pearson et al, 1993;Rice, 1993;Spratlen, 1978). Giunipero (1981), for example, examines the question of how to develop effective minority purchasing programmes and points to a positive correlation between firm size and supplier diversity activity.…”

“…U.S. Government programmes actively targetting EMBs have been in operation for over four decades (Shah and Ram, 2006) and largely grew out of attempts to promote greater civil rights via affirmative action in the wake of the racial troubles in the 1960s. 3 In essence, these programmes sought to compensate for past discrimination by reserving certain Ôset-asidesÕ for disadvantaged groups of vendors, including ethnic minority enterprises (Giunipero, 1981;Spratlen, 1978). In effect, public policy was being used as a 322…”

Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain: An Application in the Food Industry

“…Jennings (2002a, 2004) empirically established primary supply chain CSR categories of environment, diversity, human rights, philanthropy, and safety, but they found that ethical concerns relating to procurement represent a separate issue from CSR. Some supply chain researchers have examined individual elements of CSR in the chain, including environment Carter and Dresner 2001;Carter et al, 2000;Murphy et al, 1994), labor practices (Emmelhainz and Adams, 1999;Rivoli, 2003;Roberts, 2003), procurement (Carter, 2000a, b;Haynes and Helms, 1991;Razzaque and Hwee, 2002), and affirmative action purchasing (Carter et al, 1999;Giunipero, 1981;Spratlen, 1978).…”