A Study on Barriers and Practices of Supply Chain Social Sustainability in Indian and North American Energy and Manufacturing Sectors

Nair, Prashant Unnikrishnan; Thankamony, Parvathy

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“…To produce eco-friendly services of sustainability concerns, companies worldwide have refined processes and incorporated Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) at the global level, evolving into multi-tier supply chains. Within this context, and because social sustainability has been limited to its implementation in supply chains, considered as complex systems necessary to allow products and services to reach customers (Nair and Thankamony 2021 ), it faces significant barriers and obstacles (Khan et al 2021 ). Wages, working hours, and conditions are cross-cutting issues involved in this discussion, with particular emphasis on under-developed countries where poverty is high and social development almost non-existent.…”

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Barriers to institutional social sustainability

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Social sustainability is a work field characterised by an emphasis on social aspects, e.g. equity, ethics, health, gender balance, or empowerment, within a broader sustainability context. Although the concept seems to be reasonably well established and deemed worthy of pursuing, some obstacles prevent its wide dissemination. Through a bibliometric analysis focusing on the literature on social sustainability at institutions, with a focus on companies, this paper aims to investigate and describe some of the barriers associated with social sustainability implementation. Apart from identifying that sustainability reporting, environmental disclosure and financial performance play a central role in successfully achieving social sustainability, in the context of which gender-related issues seem more tangential, the results indicated some solutions commonly reported for overcoming barriers and obstacles to a company’s social sustainability implementation within different sectors. These solutions have to do, among many other factors addressed in this study, with strengthening communication transparency and trust, contributing to awareness, using technology to document and promote social sustainability. Thus, empowering organizations and citizens, recognized as essential factors to social development, and addressing the challenges in a multi-dimensional way.

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confidence: 99%