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Kauppi, K and Hannibal, C (2017) Institutional pressures and sustainability assessment in supply chains. Supply Chain Management: an International Journal, 22 (5). pp. 458-472. ISSN 1359-8546
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Abstract
Purpose: Firms are increasingly held accountable for the welfare of workers across entire supply chains and so it is surprising that standard forms of governance for socially sustainable supply chain management have not yet emerged. Assessment initiatives have begun to develop as a proxy measure of social sustainable supply chain management. This research aims to examine how social sustainability assessment initiatives instigate and use institutional pressures to drive third-party accreditation as the legitimate means of demonstrating social sustainability in a global supply chain.
Design/methodology/approach: Ten assessment initiatives focused on assuring social sustainability across supply chains are examined. Data are collected through interviews with senior managers and publicly available secondary material.
Findings: The findings show how the social sustainability assessment initiatives act by instigating institutional pressures indirectly rather than directly. Coercive pressures are the most prevalent and are exerted through consumer and compliance requirements. The notion of pressures operating as a chain is proposed, and the recognition that actors within and outside of a supply chain are crucial to the institutionalization of social sustainability is discussed.
Originality/value: Studies on sustainable supply chain management often focus on how companies sense and act upon institutional pressures. To add to the extant body of knowledge, this study focuses on the sources of the pressures and demonstrates how assessment initiatives use coercive, normative and mimetic pressures to drive the adoption of social sustainability assessment in supply chains.
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| Additional Information: | This is the accepted version of the following article: Katri Kauppi, Claire Hannibal, (2017) "Institutional pressures and sustainability assessment in supply chains", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol. 22 Issue: 5, pp.458-472, https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-01-2017-0004 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1503 Business and Management, 1599 Other Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 1505 Marketing |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5410 Marketing. Distribution of Products |
| Divisions: | Liverpool Business School |
| Publisher: | Emerald publishing Group |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2019 10:48 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 09:20 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1108/scm-01-2017-0004 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10798 |
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