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Ensuring Suppliers' and Sub-Suppliers' Compliance with Corporate Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains
Type
dissertation project
Start Date
01 October 2012
End Date
30 September 2013
Status
ongoing
Keywords
corporate sustainability standards
sustainable supply chain management
sub-supplier
institutional entrepreneurship
resource-based view
case study
field study
DEMATEL
Description
The main research question of this dissertation project is: What resources and capabilities does an institutional entrepreneur (the focal firm) require to successfully institutionalize previously defined corporate sustainability standards (CSS) in multi-tier supply chains and to ensure supply chain partners' compliance with the CSS?
This dissertation project applies theories of institutional entrepreneurship (IE) and the resource-based view (RBV) to supply chain management and procurement. It builds on institutional entrepreneurship, which examines how actors initiate, establish and finally institutionalize "new realities" frequently represented by diffused practices or rules beyond dyadic relationships (Lawrence, Hardy, & Philips, 2002). It applies RBV by focussing on the identification of key capabilities, which enable the firm to institutionalize CSS in supply chains and to ensure supply chain partners' compliance with those.
This dissertation project has three primary goals:
1. Advancing IE theory and understanding by focusing on institutionalization, the final implementation phase.
2. Further grounding of RBV (capabilities) theory within IE.
3. Application of IE to further understanding and development of sustainable supply chains, including sub-suppliers beyond dyadic buyer-supplier relationships in multi-tier supply chains.
As the institutionalization of CSS in supply chains is a relatively new research field (Delmas & Montiel, 2009; Lee, 2008; Millington, 2008), the dissertation project combines qualitative, exploratory research and quantitative, confirmatory research. Further, to decrease complexity of the analysis unit, it focuses on triads as part of firms' supply chains, consisting of the firm itself (e.g. OEM), a supplier (tier 1) and a sub-supplier (tier 2).
Supervisor: [http://www.logistik.unisg.ch Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle]
Co-supervisor: [http://www.unibw.de/materialwirtschaft/front-page Prof. Dr. Michael Essig]
This dissertation project applies theories of institutional entrepreneurship (IE) and the resource-based view (RBV) to supply chain management and procurement. It builds on institutional entrepreneurship, which examines how actors initiate, establish and finally institutionalize "new realities" frequently represented by diffused practices or rules beyond dyadic relationships (Lawrence, Hardy, & Philips, 2002). It applies RBV by focussing on the identification of key capabilities, which enable the firm to institutionalize CSS in supply chains and to ensure supply chain partners' compliance with those.
This dissertation project has three primary goals:
1. Advancing IE theory and understanding by focusing on institutionalization, the final implementation phase.
2. Further grounding of RBV (capabilities) theory within IE.
3. Application of IE to further understanding and development of sustainable supply chains, including sub-suppliers beyond dyadic buyer-supplier relationships in multi-tier supply chains.
As the institutionalization of CSS in supply chains is a relatively new research field (Delmas & Montiel, 2009; Lee, 2008; Millington, 2008), the dissertation project combines qualitative, exploratory research and quantitative, confirmatory research. Further, to decrease complexity of the analysis unit, it focuses on triads as part of firms' supply chains, consisting of the firm itself (e.g. OEM), a supplier (tier 1) and a sub-supplier (tier 2).
Supervisor: [http://www.logistik.unisg.ch Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle]
Co-supervisor: [http://www.unibw.de/materialwirtschaft/front-page Prof. Dr. Michael Essig]
Member contributor(s)
Partner(s)
[http://www.snf.ch/E/Pages/default.aspx Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) ]
[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DfbYR7MkqMC&hl=en Prof. Joseph Sarkis, PhD]
Funder(s)
Topic(s)
Ensuring Suppliers' and Sub-Suppliers' Compliance with Corporate Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains
Method(s)
Case study
field study
DEMATEL
Range
HSG Internal
Range (De)
HSG Intern
Eprints ID
219741
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