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Improving sustainability in global supply chains with private certification standards: testing an approach for assessing their performance and impact potential

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  • Walter J.V. Vermeulen
  • Janneke A. Metselaar

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Sustainable supply chain governance approaches aim for improvement of environmental and community living conditions at the developing country's side of the global supply chains. Impact evaluation in remote and multiple sourcing countries is hardly done in practice because of its complexity and costs. Evaluating the impact potential with this methodology enables an easier route for assessing and comparing the fast growing number of standard systems. This article describes a methodology for assessing the system performance and impact potential of 'sustainable supply chain governance (SSCG) systems' and uses two cases of certifying sustainable products in the coffee sector (Fairtrade and Utz Certified) for verification of the method. The approach rests on the assumption that a certification system can have substantial impact reduction if it is well organised in its content and organisation: the governance system impact potential (GSIP). Two exemplary pilot cases show that changes made over the years in both systems are directly visible with the methodology and it can be used for monitoring the progress in markets for sustainable products.

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  • Walter J.V. Vermeulen & Janneke A. Metselaar, 2015. "Improving sustainability in global supply chains with private certification standards: testing an approach for assessing their performance and impact potential," International Journal of Business and Globalisation, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(2), pages 226-250.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbglo:v:14:y:2015:i:2:p:226-250
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    1. Jianli Luo & Chen Ji & Chunxiao Qiu & Fu Jia, 2018. "Agri-Food Supply Chain Management: Bibliometric and Content Analyses," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-22, May.
    2. Anne Mook & Christine Overdevest, 2021. "What drives market construction for fair trade, organic, and GlobalGAP certification in the global citrus value chain? Evidence at the importer level in the Netherlands and the United States," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(7), pages 2996-3008, November.
    3. Eleonora Bottani & Maria Carmen Gentilotti & Marta Rinaldi, 2017. "A Fuzzy Logic-Based Tool for the Assessment of Corporate Sustainability: A Case Study in the Food Machinery Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-29, April.
    4. De, Debashree & Chowdhury, Soumyadeb & Dey, Prasanta Kumar & Ghosh, Sadhan Kumar, 2020. "Impact of Lean and Sustainability Oriented Innovation on Sustainability Performance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: A Data Envelopment Analysis-based framework," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 219(C), pages 416-430.
    5. Ahmad Abdullah & Shantanu Saraswat & Faisal Talib, 2023. "Impact of Smart, Green, Resilient, and Lean Manufacturing System on SMEs’Performance: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-26, January.
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    7. Lauren Rosenberg & Mark Swilling & Walter J V Vermeulen, 2018. "Practices of Third Wave Coffee: A Burundian Producer's Perspective," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(2), pages 199-214, February.

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