Does Sustainable Supplier Cooperation Affect Performance

By Daniel Hollos, Constantin Blome, Kai Foerstl. 2012

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The increasing importance of sustainable behaviour in business has enhanced its impact on supply chain management. Firms foster sustainability in their supplier base in reaction to growing sustainability requirements in various ways, including sustainable supplier co-operation. Knowledge about the effects of sustainable supplier co-operation on firm performance is limited; therefore, this study tests antecedents and implications of sustainable supplier co-operation according to the triple bottom line. A survey of Western European firms reveals that sustainable supplier co-operation has generally positive effects on firm performance across social, green and economic dimensions. However, only green practices have positive significant effects on economic performance, not social practices (e.g., child labour rules). In contrast to practitioner perceptions, investments in sustainability, for example through sustainable supplier co-operation does indeed result in sufficient returns.

Subfields: Management Information Systems, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Motives and Performance Outcomes of Sustainable Supply Chain Management Practices: A Multi-theoretical Perspective (2017, background): “SSCM practices encompass sustainable product design, process design, and close sustainability collaboration with suppliers as well as customers (Zhu and Sarkis 2004; Vachon and Klassen 2006; Drake and Schlachter 2008; Hollos et al. 2012; Gimenez and Sierra 2013; Morali and Searcy 2013).”
Antecedents and enablers of supply chain agility and its effect on performance: a dynamic capabilities perspective (2013, unknown): “While mostly researchers in strategic and general management have utilised the RBV, its popularity has also been increasing in the field of production and supply chain management research (e.g. Chen et al. 2009, Hollos et al. (2012), Reuter et al. 2010, Allred et al. 2011).”
Governance pressures and performance outcomes of sustainable supply chain management – An empirical analysis of UK manufacturing industry (2017, background): “Whether SSCM practices are positively or negatively related to economic performance is still an open question (Vachon and Klassen, 2006b; Green et al., 2012a; Hollos et al., 2012).”
Greener supplier selection: state of the art and some empirical evidence (2013, background): “Thus, green criteria have started to be considered also in the supplier selection problem (Sarkis 2003) and in managing supplier relationships (Hollos, Blome, and Foerstl 2012).”
Sustainable supply chain management in emerging economies: Trade-offs between environmental and cost performance (2016, background): “Despite this being widely studied in developed economies (Hollos et al., 2012; Green et al., 2012a), there is a scarcity of research in the context of emerging economies (Hsu et al., 2013), raising the question as to whether SSCM practices such as sustainable production really pay off in emerging…”