Corporate sustainability in emerging markets: insights from the practices reported by the Brazilian retailers

Delai, Ivete; Takahashi, Sérgio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.12.029

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“…Studies in social sustainability investigate, in their majority, critical factors and enablers (antecedents) (Clarkson, 1995;McWilliams and Siegel, 2000;Ehrgott et al, 2011;Searcy and Buslovich, 2014); and the impact of social sustainability on performance (Kolk et al, 2010;Gunasekaran and Spalanzani, 2012;Delai and Takahashi, 2013;Sebastiani et al, 2014). However, social issues and antecedents of social sustainability vary across geographic locations (Gugler and Shi, 2009;Huq et al, 2014).…”

Section: Supply Chain Social Sustainability and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the social dimension has received little attention in the literature (Ashby et al, 2012;Seuring and Muller, 2008;Ahi and Searcy, 2015a), whereas the majority of studies refer to developed countries Jennings, 2002, 2004;Gunasekaran and Spalanzani, 2012;Pinar et al, 2014). In developing countries and emerging economies, apart from few studies (Zhu et al, 2005;Delai and Takahashi, 2013;Chand et al, 2015;Silvestre, 2015a;2015b;Gurtu et al, 2015), research on supply chain social sustainability (SCSS) is scarce. In India for instance, media reports concerning social sustainability highlight issues including, inter alia, child and bonded labour, diversity issues, ethics, gender discrimination, and product recalls from manufacturing units (Ministry of Labour, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

et al. 2016

Ecological Indicators

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Research on social sustainability in developing countries has recently gained importance for both academics and practitioners. Studies in the supply chain management field take either a supplier or a manufacturer perspective that address predominantly corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues referring to the internal stakeholders. Our research integrates the literature on supplier, manufacturer, and customer responsibility and proposes the concept of supply chain social sustainability (SCSS) that refers to addressing social issues within the overall (upstream and downstream) supply chain. Furthermore, we develop and empirically validate scales for measuring SCSS using in-depth interviews and a survey in the Indian manufacturing industry. Our results suggest that SCSS consists of six underlying dimensions, namely equity, safety, health and welfare, philanthropy, ethics, human rights, in a 20-item valid and reliable scale. We discuss the implications of the findings for research and practice and suggest future research avenues.

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Section: Supply Chain Social Sustainability and Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

et al. 2016

Ecological Indicators

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“…In response to this question, Azapagic (2003) elaborates that for many industry leaders and corporations, corporate sustainability has become an invaluable tool for exploring ways to reduce costs, manage risks, create new products, and drive fundamental internal changes in culture and structure. In this sense, Delai and Takahashi (2013) point out that sustainable development actions and initiatives have become vital for any organisation. A sustainable organisation is one that contributes to sustainable development by delivering economic, social, and environmental benefits-the so-called triple bottom line (Hart and Milstein, 2003).…”

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The impact of sustainability exploration and sustainability exploitation practices on the organisational performance: a cross-country comparison

Maletič

Gomišček

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Instead of regarding sustainability as simply environmental or social issues, this group of research acknowledge the three dimensions of sustainability. Some studies attempt to clarify the specific practices in each dimension (Delai and Takahashi, 2013;Amini and Bienstock, 2014). Other studies in this category mainly focus on the impact of environmental and social sustainability on economic or overall sustainability, and the findings are mostly consistent.…”

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Short-term versus long-term benefits: Balanced sustainability framework and research propositions

Wu¹,

Subramanian

Abdulrahman

et al. 2017

Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Sustainability research has been expanding rapidly during recent decades. Such research takes various forms with the identification of mixed results. Even though there are several review articles on sustainability with valuable insights, the time dimension aspect of sustainability is totally missing in addition to lack of well-developed framework. This paper systematically reviews previous sustainability studies published in the refereed scientific journals for the past two decades to understand the evolution of sustainability issues in the business context and solutions proposed until now. The study categorizes the popular sustainability practices into short-and long-term practices based on the time effect, and link them with different forms of organizational capabilities and sustainability performance. The paper further proposes a two-dimensional sustainability framework that incorporates practices, capabilities and performance, and the balancing issues between short-and long-term sustainability. At the end, it suggests potential research directions for future research as well. Graphical abstract Highlights We systematically reviews the past two decades sustainability studies published in the refereed scientific journals  We use time dimension to classify and understand sustainability benefits Review of sustainability theories, practices, capabilities, and performance Classification of sustainability practices, capabilities, and sustainability performance Model & propositions development We categorized sustainability practices and performances into short-and long-term perspectives for effective managerial decisions  We propose research propositions relating firm's capability and its implementation of shortand long-term sustainability practices and sustainability performance.  We draw attention to the future role of organizational capabilities and their interactions with sustainability practices to achieve better performance.

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Corporate sustainability in emerging markets: insights from the practices reported by the Brazilian retailers

Cited by 124 publications

References 39 publications

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

Social sustainability in the supply chain: Construct development and measurement validation

The impact of sustainability exploration and sustainability exploitation practices on the organisational performance: a cross-country comparison

Short-term versus long-term benefits: Balanced sustainability framework and research propositions

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