TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable supplier development practices
T2 - Drivers and enablers in a global context
AU - Sancha Fernández, C.
AU - Longoni, A.
AU - Giménez Thomsen, C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge financial support from research grant ECO2013-47794R from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and from research grant ECO/155/2012 (ref. 2013FI_B 00281) from the Research and Universities Secretary, Economic Department, Generality of Catalonia.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - The objective of this paper is to study the impact of institutional pressures at the country level (i.e., coercive, regulatory, normative) on the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. Globalization is allowing firms to expand in new markets and to leverage on localization advantages by establishing foreign plants and sourcing internationally. Plants located in different countries might be subject to different institutional pressures shaping their organizational response to sustainability within and outside their domain (e.g., in relation to their suppliers). The paper also aims to examine if firm specific capabilities (e.g., supply chain integration) play an enabling role in the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. To analyse these relationships we relied on both primary and secondary data, and used hierarchical linear modelling to test our hypotheses. The results show that mimetic pressures have a positive effect on the adoption of sustainable supplier development and that this influence is positively moderated by the firm's level of supplier integration. Coercive and normative pressures have no effect on the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. Overall our results suggest that sustainable supplier development is a proactive practice adopted for competitive reasons and enabled by firm specific capabilities.
AB - The objective of this paper is to study the impact of institutional pressures at the country level (i.e., coercive, regulatory, normative) on the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. Globalization is allowing firms to expand in new markets and to leverage on localization advantages by establishing foreign plants and sourcing internationally. Plants located in different countries might be subject to different institutional pressures shaping their organizational response to sustainability within and outside their domain (e.g., in relation to their suppliers). The paper also aims to examine if firm specific capabilities (e.g., supply chain integration) play an enabling role in the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. To analyse these relationships we relied on both primary and secondary data, and used hierarchical linear modelling to test our hypotheses. The results show that mimetic pressures have a positive effect on the adoption of sustainable supplier development and that this influence is positively moderated by the firm's level of supplier integration. Coercive and normative pressures have no effect on the adoption of sustainable supplier development practices. Overall our results suggest that sustainable supplier development is a proactive practice adopted for competitive reasons and enabled by firm specific capabilities.
KW - Hierarchical linear modelling
KW - Institutional pressures
KW - Supplier integration
KW - Sustainable supplier development
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pursup.2014.12.004
DO - 10.1016/j.pursup.2014.12.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921503010
SN - 1478-4092
VL - 21
SP - 95
EP - 102
JO - Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
JF - Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management
IS - 2
ER -