Sustainable collaboration: The impact of governance and institutions on sustainable performance

Abstract

Collaboration between firms is important to stimulate the transition to a more sustainable society. This special volume shows that collaboration is indeed one of the preferred forms of governance to manage relations between firms in a sustainability context. Collaboration enhances sustainable benefits by creating legitimacy of sustainable technologies, reducing waste and improving environmental and social performance of firms. The institutional environment, in particular environmental laws and regulations, has a beneficial impact on collaboration and relationship management in sustainable supply chains. Two studies in this special volume show, however, that stringent environmental regulations may hinder economic performance and result in outsourcing to foreign suppliers with potential detrimental effects for environmental performance. These negative effects can be overcome by firms that invest in sustainable innovation. This special volume also shows that ecoinnovation leads to sustainable benefits, such as lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Supplier Development Practices for Sustainability: A Multi‐Stakeholder Perspective

“…Thus our research could not look more closely at each programme to further examine the collaboration between BFs, suppliers and contributors, and the mechanisms behind such collaboration that might determine the shaping of the three roles of driver, facilitator and inspector. Thus there are a number of outstanding research questions that could be addressed in future research, including the following: ‘Is it possible for NGOs and industrial associations to be both facilitators and inspectors?’, ‘Is it possible that the roles were decided and/or redefined when different NGOs are working together?’, ‘What are the decision making and organizational learning processes of shifting roles?’ and last ‘Beyond sustainable supplier development, will those versatile or adaptive organizations be more or less efficient/effective in sustainability collaboration?’ (Govindan et al ., ; Niesten et al ., ). The next stage of proposed research should look into the organizational structures of both suppliers, business associations and membership‐based NGOs, and find out whether and how the characteristics of organizational structures and inter‐organizational collaborations will influence the effectiveness of sustainable supply chain management.…”

Analysing Organisational Collaboration Practices for Sustainability

“…Several research streams have addressed the various forms of organisational collaboration with stakeholders for sustainability. A large number of studies have focussed on corporate collaboration for sustainability and sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), where collaborative partnerships are often built with customers, suppliers, other companies, associations and other sector organisations, universities, non-governmental organisations and governments [58,59]. Within SSCM literature, most research efforts (e.g.…”

Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Individual and Project Team Performance in Information Technology Projects Under the Moderating Role of Task Interdependence

“…According to (De Veer, 2012), high level of task interdependence is not only responsible of harmonization among team members but also serve as a medium through which members can remain conscious of each other's problems and task interdependency is actually the mutual dependence of one team member on other for the sake of information that is necessary to complete one's task and vice versa. Individual & project team performance: According to Niesten et al (2017) different individuals working on the same project or in identical team have different kind and magnitude of the contribution in the project completion depending upon their individual performance, adeptness level and numerous other reasons. That's why individual performance is a significant construct.…”