A systematic literature review on sustainability-oriented supplier development

Jia, Meng; Stevenson, Mark; Hendry, Linda

doi:10.1080/09537287.2021.1958388

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“…Within the field of sustainability-oriented supplier development (SSD), which extends the scope of SD to incorporate a sustainability element, there is a growing body of work that has focused on developing suppliers' performance or capability for managing sustainabilityrelevant challenges (Gimenez and Tachizawa, 2012;Jia et al, 2021a). SSD initiatives provide suppliers with the opportunity to access external knowledge, which triggers supplier learning; however, it requires supplier effort to learn and then to incorporate this learning into their daily business processes to enhance sustainability performance (Silvestre et al, 2020).…”

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Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives

Jia

Hendry²,

Stevenson³

2022

IJOPM

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PurposeTo study the learning processes and mechanisms involved in sustainability-oriented supplier development (SSD), including how knowledge is transmitted by the buyer and how it is received, understood and internalised by the supplier.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory longitudinal multi-case study approach is adopted. The research context is a social SSD project focusing on occupational health and safety (OHS) management at four supplier factories. The paper draws on the constructs of absorptive capacity and boundary objects.FindingsThe development of a supplier's absorptive capacity for OHS management is triggered by the transfer of boundary objects that are created by the buyer. Findings suggest that each supplier starts explorative learning in a similar and passive way in order to accept the knowledge, but then each supplier proactively transforms and exploits the knowledge through continuous sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring loops that develop the boundary objects in a way that fits their own needs and contexts, incorporating the objects into organisational structures and routines.Research limitations/implicationsThe research furthers the understanding of the development of supplier absorptive capacity for sustainability via SSD projects, including how it is triggered and sustained. The impact of ostensive and performative aspects of boundary objects on knowledge transfer is presented. Finally, insight is provided into how absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities are linked in the context of SSD.Practical implicationsBuying firms should seek to develop boundary objects that can trigger and maintain learning momentum for sustainability at supplier organisations in addition to effectively transferring SSD-related sustainability knowledge. There is also a need to allow for sufficient flexibility in the design of the boundary objects, and to pay sufficient attention to how suppliers contextualise and embed them into their own organisations, providing support for this process where necessary. For the supplier, establishing structures and routines for OHS management can help to prepare for future audits, thereby reducing audit fatigue.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the supply chain learning literature by exploring the development of supplier absorptive capacity for sustainability triggered by the focal buying firm. It sheds new light on the role of boundary objects for facilitating knowledge transfer and learning between supply chain members in the context of SSD projects.

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Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives

Jia

Hendry²,

Stevenson³

2022

IJOPM

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“…Things will be different in case the suppliers perceive the relationship attractiveness to be high, from both an economic and social perspective, because such a positive attitude toward the partners and the relationships will enhance the ability of repeated collaborative buyer–supplier interactions to stimulate the emergence of trust and the development of interorganizational relationships wherein reciprocity acts as an informal but powerful rule (Capaldo, 2014; Jia et al, 2021; Patrucco et al, 2019). In such conditions, the adoption of environmental collaboration practices will further stimulate environmental commitment on the suppliers' side, so that the suppliers will be more likely to strive to satisfy their customers' requirements, or even to anticipate them in a proactive manner (Patrucco, Moretto, Luzzini, & Glas, 2020).…”

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“…Nevertheless, extant research on green supply chain management has typically adopted the perspective of buying firms (e.g., Danese et al, 2018;Mani et al, 2018;Tachizawa et al, 2015), while a lower number of studies have examined green supply chain management effectiveness from the supplier perspective (e.g., Acosta et al, 2015;Chen & Chen, 2019b). In particular, although previous scholars have alerted us to the importance of perceptions in supply chain relationships (Czakon & Kawa, 2018), and supply chain research more generally (Oosterhuis et al, 2013), we lack a thorough understanding of the suppliers' perceived ability of buyers' environmental assessment and collaboration practices to influence suppliers' environmental commitment (Jia et al, 2021;Nyaga et al, 2010).…”

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Green supply chain management, supplier environmental commitment, and the roles of supplier perceived relationship attractiveness and justice. A moderated moderation analysis

Qiao

Capaldo

2022

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A key strategic challenge for buying firms is to extend environmental management across the supply chain. This requires a strong environmental commitment on the suppliers' side. Adopting the supplier perspective, this study employs regression analysis with bootstrapping procedures to examine a contingent causal process model of the influence that two major green supply chain management practices widely adopted by buying firms in their relationships with suppliers, t, environmental assessment and environmental collaboration, exert on supplier environmental commitment, and the moderating effects of supplier perceived relationship attractiveness and supplier perceived justice. Results from a survey of 237 Chinese suppliers across multiple industries reveal that, while environmental collaboration positively influences supplier environmental commitment, the impact of environmental assessment is not significant. However, our moderation analysis shows that supplier perceived relationship attractiveness has a positive moderating effect on the influence exerted on supplier environmental commitment by both environmental assessment and collaboration, and our moderated moderation analysis reveals that both the above moderating effects are in turn positively moderated by supplier perceived justice. Focusing on the role of suppliers' perceptions, the study sheds light on the psychological context of the suppliers' choice to commit to the environmental management initiatives of their buying counterparts.

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“…It must bring together a diverse set of expert skills across geographically dispersed short-term project environments, as well as deal with rapidly changing demand cycles, project-specific product demands, and fluctuating manufacturing conditions. Over the last 20 years, subcontracting has grown in popularity, further complicating the situation by fragmenting the manufacturing process [4].…”

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Two-Level Supply Chain Network Construction in Big Data Environment

Lei

et al. 2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Supply chain management has become a critical problem for any company looking to meet targets in terms of economic competitiveness, time, and quality of service especially in an economic context marked by the globalization of trade and the speed of industrial cycles. Selecting the right suppliers and establishing proper ordering and shipping systems are important to reduce unnecessary resource loss and improve the core competitiveness of enterprises. However, most scenarios for supplier selection, order allocation, and transportation solution selection remain largely unknown, particularly in the context of big data. To overcome this problem, this study presents a two-level supply chain network. The ranking and selection of suppliers are achieved by constructing a supplier importance measurement index system and establishing an evaluation model with principal component analysis, while combining the greed idea to establish constraint equations for multiple indicators, order allocation to selected suppliers, and finally, the allocation of transportation solutions considering the loss rate of operators. Finally, a real-world example is employed to demonstrate the efficacy of the algorithm.

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A systematic literature review on sustainability-oriented supplier development

Cited by 25 publications

References 113 publications

Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives

Supplier absorptive capacity: learning via boundary objects in sustainability-oriented supplier development initiatives

Green supply chain management, supplier environmental commitment, and the roles of supplier perceived relationship attractiveness and justice. A moderated moderation analysis

Two-Level Supply Chain Network Construction in Big Data Environment

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