Building Value at the Top and the Bottom of the Global Supply Chain: MNC-NGO Partnerships

By Paola Perez-Aleman, M. Sandilands. 2008

209 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management

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1. Stefan Gold
2. Stefan Seuring
3. Rüdiger Hahn
4. Patricia Beatriz Marquez
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2. M. Boersma
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8. Joseph Sarkis

Citations in the corpus

• The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain (2015, background): “…in formulating sustainable standards, and stimulate cooperative behaviour amongst stakeholders throughout global value chains (Dahan et al. 2010; Perez-Aleman and Sandilands 2008) Multi-stakeholder initiatives are often portrayed as more legitimate, compared to industry-led initiatives such as…”
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management in "Base of the Pyramid" Food Projects - A Path to Triple Bottom Line Approaches for Multinationals? (2013, background): “Perez-Aleman and Sandilands (2008) investigate partnerships between NGOs and MNCs that implement social and environmental standards in global supply chains.”
• Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Countries A Framework for Analysis (2011, unknown): “For example, Perez-Aleman and Sandilands (2008), in their analysis of the sustainable production program of Starbucks, show the power of NGOs that brought about significant changes in the purchasing policies of Starbucks and also point at the presence of an independent external certification organiz”
• Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “…in targeted developing countries, which led to the discovery of locally fruitful agricultural practices – a result which a standard “imposed from the top, or that focuses on immediate outcomes based on advanced country conditions” would not have generated (Perez-Aleman & Sandilands, 2008: 40).”
• Inclusive Networks for Building BOP Markets (2012, background): “In practice, this implied a willingness to accompany, to invest time and resources in training and empowering weak partners—what has been called an “active assistance approach” (Perez-Aleman & Sandilands, 2008).”