Fostering sustainability through sourcing from small businesses: public sector perspectives

By Helen Walker, Lutz Preuss. 2008

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Unveiling barriers to sustainable public procurement in emerging economies: Evidence from a leading sustainable supply chain initiative in Latin America (2018, methodology): “This work uses a quantitative approach in the form of a self-administered survey questionnaire, which is a widely used technique across management research (Walker and Brammer, 2009, 2012; Walker and Preuss, 2008; Mcmurray et al., 2013).”
Is Public Procurement a Successful Small Business Support Policy? A Review of the Evidence (2013, background): “These include enhanced competition in the marketplace (FSB, 2008; Glover, 2008; O’Brien, 1993), job creation (Erridge et al, 1998; Fee et al, 2002), more innovation (Erridge et al, 1998; Glover, 2008), and improvements in local and regional development (Bovis, 1998; Pickernell et al, 2011; Walker an”
Managing Imbalanced Supply Chain Relationships for Sustainability: A Power Perspective (2014, background): “This is surprising given that most research in the field considers the activities of large corporations often working with small suppliers at home or overseas to implement sustainable practices (Amaeshi, et al., 2008; Jeremy Hall, 2001; Lee & Klassen, 2008; H. Walker & Preuss, 2008).”
Towards a more Circular Economy: Proposing a framework linking sustainable public procurement and sustainable business models (2016, background): “PP includes education, leisure, and social services (Walker and Preuss, 2008).”
Linking social and economic responsibilities with financial performance: The role of innovation (2016, background): “…to initially address concerns that are obviously related to economic objectives and hence the adoption of social and environmental initiatives is slower (Walker & Preuss, 2008), which in turn is likely to result in tensions between them that are difficult to reconcile (Carroll & Shabana, 2010).”
Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Small and Medium Enterprises (2018, background): “The literature on sustainability has focused on the environmental performance of SMEs, which is also known as the green supply chain [37], as well as their role in creating more sustainable forms of food supply [38].”