Cooperative initiatives with NGOs in socially sustainable supply chains: How is inter-organizational fit achieved?

Bottoms up: Delivering sustainable value in the base of the pyramid

“…The individual segments of the inverted supply chain already exist at a global scale and scope. We would expect the starting point of our model to be an NGO or nonprofit organization developing a proposal in cooperation with local stakeholders in a BoP community (Rodriguez et al, ). These stakeholders would involve development experts, local residents possessing the local knowledge to avoid coopting by elites, and technical personnel capable of developing the contractual scope and terms and conditions of an enforceable contract.…”

“…In many cases, the NGOs are in a better position than firms to provide guidance in this process. In fact, Rodriguez et al () found that “by treating the NGO as the focal actor in the network, rather than as a ‘nontraditional’ supply chain member, the research shows that traditional supply chain management practices are successfully used by not‐for‐profit organizations to improve the social sustainability of both the community and firms.”…”

“…The initiation and coordination of supply chains involving nontraditional actors, such as educational institutions, governmental departments, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs; Rodriguez, Gimenez, & Arenas, ), present the potential for nontraditional stakeholders to act as social intermediaries in bringing together different actors and thereby enabling transaction capabilities in BoP communities (Kistruck, Qureshi, & Sutter, ). This is of particular relevance in informal or subsistence markets, such as the BoP, characterized by institutional voids (Parmigiana & Rivera‐Santos, ).…”

The role of intermediaries in establishing a sustainable supply chain

“…How SCIs perform this service and the role they play when developing the bridge between firms or beyond, is not evident in the literature (Nakamba et al, 2017). This paper focuses upon the role of SCIs in supporting firms to establish sustainable supply chains (SSCs) at the point where buyers and suppliers are linked for the first time (e.g., SRP), complementing studies where supply chain partners are considered at later stages such as in supplier development (Rodriguez et al, 2016a(Rodriguez et al, , 2016bHannibal and Kauppi, 2018).…”

Investigating the Influential Factors of Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Using Two Asian Countries as Examples

“…SSCM could be defined as ‘the strategic business integration of supply chain to minimize the risks from the economic, social and environmental perspectives in the system coordination, and to maximize the corporate values including the shareholders’ value’ (Rodríguez et al , ; Seuring and Müller, ; Tseng et al , ; Vermeulen and Seuring, ; Wang et al , ). Therefore, sustainability is referred to as the triple bottom line (TBL) (Elkington, ), where the economic, social and environmental dimensions of business are simultaneously taken into account (Formentini and Taticchi, ).…”