Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Environmental turbulence, institutional voids and sustainability trajectories

Silvestre, Bruno S.

doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.05.025

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

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

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

Mani

Agarwal

Gunasekaran

et al. 2016

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“…Literature on sustainability management studies have been highlighted that knowledge management [2][3][4], business strategy [5,6], and organizational learning [7,8] are considered as vital indicators of firm sustainability performance improvement. Some researchers confirm that knowledge management and its output, organizational knowledge, are antecedents of organizational learning [9,10] and company business strategy [11,12].…”

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Firm Sustainability Performance Index Modeling

2015

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Abstract:The main objective of this paper is to bring a model for firm sustainability performance index by applying both classical and Bayesian structural equation modeling (parametric and semi-parametric modeling). Both techniques are considered to the research data collected based on a survey directed to the China, Taiwan, and Malaysia food manufacturing industry. For estimating firm sustainability performance index we consider three main indicators include knowledge management, organizational learning, and business strategy. Based on the both Bayesian and classical methodology, we confirmed that knowledge management and business strategy have significant impact on firm sustainability performance index.

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“…The supply chains face additional barriers to sustainability in economic developments, which contributes to a higher degree of complexity and uncertainty. This is due to the existence of highly turbulent business environments and institutional voids (Silvestre, 2015). Firms that have the green agile supply chain should have better outcome of EP.…”

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“…Well-managed supply chain is crucial in the highly competitive global business environment. Business leaders, researchers and policy makers recognise that supply chains provide operational and strategic advantages for organisations, regions, and countries (Silvestre, 2015). SCM was initially perceived as the logistics of manufacturing and distribution, which extended from outside the firm to customers and suppliers.…”

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Green supply chain agility in EMS ISO 14001 manufacturing firms: empirical justification of social and environmental performance as an organisational outcome

Fernando

Saththasivam

2017

IJPM

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In today's sustainable economic world, the rational thought should be the costs of life cycle, resources or supply chain process. Supply chains need to possess agility to achieve environmental performance (EP) and social performance (SP). However, at present, there is very little knowledge and awareness of how these two concepts interact within a supply chain. This paper therefore, aims to develop a conceptual framework to depict how green supply chain agility (GSCA) strengthens the EP and SP within the supply chain. In this study, a self-administered questionnaire was designed based on important criteria identified in the literature, and then administered to 230 organisations representing various industries which are part of EMS ISO 14001 certified manufacturing firms in Malaysia. The results showed that GSCA improves the performance of a firm environmentally and socially, and the control variables have no significant influence on the dependent variables.

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Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Environmental turbulence, institutional voids and sustainability trajectories

Cited by 436 publications

References 129 publications

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

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

Firm Sustainability Performance Index Modeling

Green supply chain agility in EMS ISO 14001 manufacturing firms: empirical justification of social and environmental performance as an organisational outcome

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