Implications for pure profit, environmental impact and social welfare in a socially responsible supply chain

Zhang, Zhichao; Xu, Haiyan; Zhi, Liu; Fang, Yinhai

doi:10.1108/k-12-2019-0852

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“…Earlier research on supply chain coordination focused mainly on contract coordination from the perspective of economic returns or profit maximization [20], and in recent years, as consumers have become more sensitive to corporate social responsibility [23,24], there has been increasing research on sustainable supply chains and supply chain coordination with comprehensive consideration of economic benefits and environmental protection [6,9,33,42].…”

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Optimal coordination and service level of the supply chain in the sharing economy: the perspective of social responsibility

Guo

2021

Complex Intell. Syst.

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The sharing economy has changed people’s lives. These changes have accelerated the pace of life and improved the quality of life, but have also had some negative effects. For example, in China, in the supply chain of the takeout delivery platform, the service deliverer often violates traffic rules to shorten the delivery time. This phenomenon has aroused widespread concern in society. From the perspective of sustainable operation of platform enterprises and reducing social risks, this issue is worthy of in-depth study. First, this study analyses the optimal decision-making about pricing and service efforts, then discusses the supply chain coordination mechanism under a revenue-sharing contract, and finds that the platform’s service level is related to the efforts of deliverers and the elasticity of demand/service. However, under a traditional revenue-sharing contract, the economic returns are not enough to motivate deliverers to avoid violations of traffic regulations; When the increase of cost caused by the improvement of service level is not fully covered by the revenue sharing from the platform, they have a strong incentive to break the rules even if the optimal coordination can be achieved in the supply chain. Second, this study reconstructs the revenue-sharing contract by adding social responsibility to the objective function of the platform enterprises and designs contingent rewards to regulate behaviours of service deliverers. The results indicate that when the contingent reward factor reaches a certain level, the optimal effort of the service deliverers is constrained within a reasonable range, which can to some extent reduce the occurrence of illegal behaviour. Our findings offer fresh insights on coordination of supply chain in the sharing economy, identify new direction for future research on CSR, and provide managers of platform enterprises with suggestions for regulating the behaviour of partners and balance the economic and social benefits.

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Optimal coordination and service level of the supply chain in the sharing economy: the perspective of social responsibility

Guo

2021

Complex Intell. Syst.

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“…Members in a supply chain account for CSR in different ways (Zhang et al , 2021). They examine a socially responsible supply chain in which the manufacturer innovates in a sustainable product while the retailer exhibits CSR concerns.…”

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“…Authors (Zhang et al , 2021) exhibit that, under certain conditions, the optimal CSR strategies hold for maximising pure channel profit, minimising environmental impact and maximising social welfare. Whether the performance in a centralised case outnumbers that in a decentralised case depends on the CSR concerns level and environment-friendly degree of the product.…”

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“…Cottafava and Corazza (2021) propose a tool to identify and assess active stakeholders of an organisation, Liu et al (2021) elaborate on the effects of institutional support on green innovation performance, and (Xu et al , 2021) the price formation supporting the viability of all stakeholders in the supply chain. Zhang et al (2021) provide relations between pure profit, environmental impact and social welfare in a socially responsible supply chain.…”

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“…2.7 Implications for pure profit, environmental impact and social welfare in a socially responsible supply chain. Members in a supply chain account for CSR in different ways (Zhang et al, 2021). They examine a socially responsible supply chain in which the manufacturer innovates in a sustainable product while the retailer exhibits CSR concerns.…”

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Unveiling the value of institutional pressure in socially sustainable supply chain management: The role of top management support for social initiatives and organisational culture

Zhou,

Long,

Govindan

2024

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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This study aims to explore the factors that motivate firms to adopt socially sustainable supply chain management (socially SSCM) practices. To address this question, we seek to investigate the effect of institutional pressure on firms' socially SSCM (i.e., assessment and collaboration) and the mediating role of top management support (TMS) for social initiatives. We also argue that organisational culture, which comprises flexibility and control orientation, influences the process from institutional pressures to TMS for social initiatives. Using survey data from 248 buyer–supplier dyads in China, we find that institutional pressure positively influences companies to enhance socially SSCM, including assessment and collaboration practices. Moreover, TMS for social initiatives plays mediating role in the relationship between institutional pressure and socially SSCM. Moreover, flexibility‐orientated culture weakens the influence of institutional pressure on TMS for social initiatives, whereas the effect of institutional pressure on TMS for social initiatives intensifies as control‐orientated culture increases. This study contributes to the literature by stressing the social dimension of SSCM and linking institutional and organisational factors involved in social ethics issues to understand buying firms' tendency to achieve socially SSCM.

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Implications for pure profit, environmental impact and social welfare in a socially responsible supply chain

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Optimal coordination and service level of the supply chain in the sharing economy: the perspective of social responsibility

Optimal coordination and service level of the supply chain in the sharing economy: the perspective of social responsibility

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Unveiling the value of institutional pressure in socially sustainable supply chain management: The role of top management support for social initiatives and organisational culture

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