Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, Exceptions and Implications

Amaeshi, Kenneth; Osuji, Onyeka K.; Nnodim, Paul

doi:10.2139/ssrn.947583

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“…Their contribution is crucial in the development of this knowledge path, especially in the way that they delve into how CSR practices are embedded within the (IKEA) supply chain. Other similar articles are found at this time in the literature but are not shown on the main path (Amaeshi et al 2008;Boyd et al 2007); both of them have also introduced CSR issues in supply chains, thus contributing to the development of ethical sourcing theory. Overall, articles in this period reflect scholarly attempts to discuss the incorporation of CSR issues into the supply chain context.…”

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

2016

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“…As an example, Amaeshi et al (2008) suggest that the more 79 powerful member in a firm-supplier relationship should bear the responsibility to influence the 80 less powerful one (s). 81…”

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Social responsibility allocation in two-echelon supply chains: Insights from wholesale price contracts

Xiao-wo

2010

European Journal of Operational Research

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is defined as corporate activities and their 7 impacts on different social groups. In this paper, CSR is considered in a two-echelon supply 8 chain consisting of an upstream supplier and a downstream firm that are bound by a wholesale 9 price contract. CSR performance (the outcome of CSR conduct) of the whole supply chain is 10 gauged by a global variable and the associated cost of achieving this CSR performance is only 11 incurred by the supplier with an expectation of being shared with the downstream firm via the 12 wholesale price contract. As such, the key issue is to determine who should be allocated as the 13 responsibility holder with the right of offering the contract and how this right should be 14 appropriately restricted. Game-theoretical analyses are carried out on six games, resulting from 15 different interaction schemes between the supplier and the firm, to derive their corresponding 16 equilibriums. Comparative institutional analyses are then conducted to determine the optimal 17 social responsibility allocations based on both economic and CSR performance criteria. Main 18 results are furnished in a series of propositions and their implications to the real-world business 19 practice are discussed. The key findings are threefold: Under the current model settings, (1) the 20 optimal allocation scheme is to assign the supplier as the responsibility holder with appropriate 21 restrictions on the corresponding rights to determine the wholesale price; (2) Inherent conflict 22 exists between the economic and CSR performance criteria and, hence, the two maxima cannot 23 be achieved simultaneously; (3) Although integrative channel profit is not attainable, the system-24 wide profit will be improved by implementing optimal social responsibility allocation schemes. 25

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“…In sum, these activities could largely be characterised as expressions of extended corporate citizenship (Matten and Crane, 2005) and informal institutional work because, although firms 29 do not have the power of enforcement of the State, they have an analogous power of the State (Crane et al, 2008) in their value chain -especially with their direct suppliers or their deep pockets (Amaeshi et al, 2008). In that sense, firms exert coercive pressure and shape social obligation to raise finance in a direct form.…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter?

2014

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains of Global Brands: A Boundaryless Responsibility? Clarifications, Exceptions and Implications

Cited by 51 publications

References 45 publications

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

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

Social responsibility allocation in two-echelon supply chains: Insights from wholesale price contracts

Corporate Social Responsibility in Challenging and Non-enabling Institutional Contexts: Do Institutional Voids matter?

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