Ethical issues in international buyer–supplier relationships: a dyadic examination

Carter, Craig R.

doi:10.1016/s0272-6963(99)00016-9

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“…These factors comprise the "ethics" dimension of supplier social sustainability (Carter, 2000;Chardine-Baumann and Botta-Genoulaz, 2014). Ethics in developing countries is defined in a broader sense to encompass not just adhering to socially desirable standards, but also abiding by the (often lawful) standards of developed nations.…”

Section: Supplier Social Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Mani

Gunasekaran

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et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

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Economic, environmental and social aspects of sustainability have been shown to span beyond organizational boundaries, indicating the importance of managing sustainability initiatives across the supply chain. Although scholars and practitioners focus a great deal of attention toward economic and environmental sustainability in supply chains, less attention is paid to social aspects. This is unfortunate, because social sustainability not only plays an important role in enabling other sustainability initiatives, but social injustices in one echelon of a supply chain can lead to significant losses for firms across the chain. Social issues have been especially problematic in developing nations, where abusive labor practices continue to negatively affect trading partners. This research seeks to disambiguate supply chain social sustainability in developing nations by uncovering relevant dimensions of social sustainability and resultant outcomes. Using semi-structured interview data collected from supply chain executives in Indian manufacturing companies, this research uncovers dimensions of social sustainability in terms of not only the focal firm, but also first-tier suppliers and customers. Each of these dimensions are then associated to potential performance outcomes. The findings not only provide a baseline for future research, but help practitioners understand where to focus their attention to enhance social sustainability in their supply chains.

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Section: Supplier Social Sustainability Dimensionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Mani

Gunasekaran

Παπαδόπουλος

et al. 2016

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

206

147

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“…Respondents were asked to answer questions from a company rather than a personal perspective as a second effort to reduce social desirability bias (Carter 2000). As an additional provision, questions were varied in terms of positive and negative wording.…”

Section: Non-response Bias and Social Desirability Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Piggy in the Middle: How Direct Customer Power Affects First-Tier Suppliers’ Adoption of Socially Responsible Procurement Practices and Performance

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“…On the other hand, this result clearly supports our earlier statement that ethical sourcing studies are still in the early stage focusing more on developing new theory. In fact, some of the prior studies are focused on the consequences of corporate ethical sourcing, including buyer satisfaction (Akamp and Müller 2013;Carter 2000;Kaynak and Sert 2012), supplier performance like capabilities (Carter and Jennings 2002;Ehrgott et al 2011), buyer reputation (Eltantawy et al 2009), relationship performance (Gonzalez-Padron et al 2008;Leonidou et al 2013), and supplier compliance (Jiang 2009). However, it is only lately that authors have begun to direct attention towards the financial effects of ethical sourcing.…”

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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 issues in international buyer–supplier relationships: a dyadic examination

Cited by 272 publications

References 60 publications

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Supply chain social sustainability for developing nations: Evidence from India

Piggy in the Middle: How Direct Customer Power Affects First-Tier Suppliers’ Adoption of Socially Responsible Procurement Practices and Performance

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

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