The effect of buyer pressure on suppliers in SMEs to demonstrate CSR practices: An added incentive or counter productive?

By D. Baden, Ian Harwood, D. Woodward. 2009

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Subfields: Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Social Sustainability in Developing Country Suppliers: An Exploratory Study in the Ready Made Garments Industry of Bangladesh (2014, background): “Second, Baden et al. (2009) found the attitude of UK SME owners/managers to be a key factor motivating social improvements.”
Corporate social responsibility in the food sector (2011, background): “Just outsourcing own responsibility and liability might be considered as a rather cynical way of ‘greenwash’ (EEG, 2007; Fassin, 2008; Baden et al., 2009; Russo and Perrini, 2009).”
Are firms with different CSR profiles equally innovative? Empirical analysis with survey data (2013, background): “In line with Baden et al. (2009), we find that firms have no chance of benefiting from CSR in ‘‘the absence of intrinsic motivation to engage in CSR’’ (p. 432). This result offers empirical validation of Burke and Logsdon s (1996) theoretical predictions; it also extends an existing empirical study ”
Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “Despite (or perhaps because of) the increased transparency of corporate activities, much of the literature on this topic has been examined from the developed buyers’ side (Baden et al. 2009), to the exclusion of some of the challenges in the non-market coordination of the chain upstream in developin”
The impact of external pressure and sustainable management practices on manufacturing performance and environmental outcomes (2016, background): “Similarly, social pressures aim to encourage responsible corporate citizenship (Awaysheh and Klassen., 2010; Baden et al., 2009).”
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) communication and small and medium sized enterprises: The governmentality dilemma of explicit and implicit CSR communication (2019, background): “Crucially though, the picture is complicated and overall standards may rise as a result of supply chain responsibility pressures but doubt remains about the assumed positive relationship between standards compliance within SMEs and improvements in CSR (Baden et al., 2009; Knudsen, 2013).”