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Extending Social Sustainability to Suppliers: The Role of GVC Governance Strategies and Supplier Country Institutions
The disaggregation and geographic dispersion of global value chains (GVCs) have expanded the responsibility of international buyers from firm-level...
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Power Imbalance and the Dark Side of the Captive Agri-food Supplier–Buyer Relationship
This paper highlights the dark side of power imbalance regarding its consequences in agri-food supplier–buyer relationships. We report on findings...
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Determinants of Supply Chain Engagement in Carbon Management
To fight climate change, firms must adopt effective and feasible carbon management practices that promote collaboration within supply chains....
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Local Corruption and Trade Credit: Evidence from an Emerging Market
We propose that local corruption distorts the allocation of government-controlled resources and impairs the contract environment, thereby reducing...
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Local Understandings of Decent Work and the Legitimacy of Global Labour Standards: Insights from Garment Suppliers in Egypt and Jordan
This paper contributes to the debates on the effectiveness and legitimacy of global labour standards. Theoretically, the paper integrates literature...
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Effects of Institutional Pressures on the Governance of Food Safety in Emerging Food Supply Chains: A Case of Lebanese Food Processors
Food safety has become a major development challenge and a key influence on the strategic behavior of food companies. The study seeks to analyze the...
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Resource Dependencies and the Legitimatization of Grocery Retailer’s Social Evaluations of Suppliers
Multinational corporations (MNCs) are increasingly judged not only on their own social impacts but also on those of their supply chain partners. To...
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Effects of institutional pressures on the governance of food safety in emerging food supply chains: a case of Lebanese food processors
Food safety has become a major development challenge and a key influence on the strategic behavior of food companies. The study seeks to analyze the...
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Deterring Unethical Behaviors in Marketing Channels: The Role of Distributor Whistleblowing
In marketing channels, distributor whistleblowing can deter unethical behaviors, though little academic research investigates this tactic. Drawing on...
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Socially Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Suppliers’ Social Performance: The Role of Social Capital
The implementation of socially sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices (i.e. assessment and collaboration) to tackle suppliers’ social...
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Governance and Power Across Intersecting Value Chains: The Case of South African Apples
A prevailing focus of global value chain (GVC) analysis has been on the dominance of highly consolidated Northern retailers over suppliers in the...
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Firms Talk, Suppliers Walk: Analyzing the Locus of Greenwashing in the Blame Game and Introducing ‘Vicarious Greenwashing’
Greenwashing is a phenomenon that is linked to scandals that often occur at the supply-chain level. Nevertheless, research on this subject remains in...
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Regulating antimicrobial resistance: market intermediaries, poultry and the audit lock-in
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. Food production and farming are a key if...
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Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse: Case of the Fair Food Program
This paper investigates necessary conditions for develo** a participatory, rightsholder-driven approach to remedy for business-related human rights...
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Role of Artificial Intelligence in Advancing Sustainable Development Goals in the Agriculture Sector
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the algorithms designed to make decisions, often using big real-time data to perform activities that at times go...
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Circular Value Creation for Sustainable Development Goals
Circular economy (CE) business models provide solutions for sustainable development goals by closing, slowing, intensifying, de-materializing, and...
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The ‘Court of Public Opinion:’ Public Perceptions of Business Involvement in Human Rights Violations
Public pressure is essential for providing multinational enterprises (MNEs) with motivation to follow the standards of human rights conduct set in...
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Diverse Organizational Adoption of Institutions in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility
In the current literature, institutional adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) governance standards is mainly understood in a binary...
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Shareholder Value Effects of Ethical Sourcing: Comparing Reactive and Proactive Initiatives
With the advent of responsible business, ensuring social responsibility in sourcing is of interest to both academics and practitioners. In this...
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No-Size-Fits-All: Collaborative Governance as an Alternative for Addressing Labour Issues in Global Supply Chains
Labour issues in global supply chains have been a thorny problem for both buyer firms and their suppliers. Research initially focused mostly on the...