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Institutionalizing Proactive Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains: Which Institutional Entrepreneurship Capabilities Matter?

In: Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy

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  • Jörg H. Grimm

    (University of St. Gallen)

  • Joerg S. Hofstetter

    (University of St. Gallen)

  • Martina Müggler

    (University of St. Gallen)

  • Nils J. Peters

    (McKinsey & Company in Zurich)

Abstract

External stakeholders have built up sustainability consciousness and expectations, putting companies under regular surveillance by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and by the media (Doh & Guay, 2006). Stakeholders often do not differentiate between a company’s operations and its suppliers’ operations; they hold the company responsible for all practices involved in the making of the product, including any potential sustainability concerns (Rao, 2002). Thus, suppliers not complying with the company’s promised values are likely to damage corporate reputation or harm customer confidence. Levi’s, Nike, and Mattel are prominent examples that show how brands can suffer as a result of using noncompliant suppliers (Wagner, Lutz, & Weitz, 2009). A proactive supply chain sustainability strategy is therefore vital (Handfield, Scroufe, & Walton 2005; Rao & Holt, 2005). To implement such a strategy, companies provide specific sustainability standards for their supply chains (Bansal & Hunter, 2003; Luo & Bhattacharya, 2006). These standards, known as proactive supply chain sustainability standards (PSCSS) may provide statements to comply with legal requirements and may add elements that go beyond the law. Having introduced these PSCSS, companies still face the challenge of ensuring that their supply chain partners comply. Monitoring supplier processes and assessing the quality of procured products is challenging, because global supply chains have become more complex (Matten & Moon, 2008; Roth, Tsay, Pullman, & Gray, 2008). The large number of suppliers, as well as the organizational and geographical distance between the company and its direct and indirect suppliers, hinder a company from controlling its suppliers’ sustainability practices (Bremer & Udovich, 2001). Further problems may arise when suppliers are located in developing countries, as local legal standards may not conform to the main company’s requirements (Detomasi, 2007).

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  • Jörg H. Grimm & Joerg S. Hofstetter & Martina Müggler & Nils J. Peters, 2011. "Institutionalizing Proactive Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains: Which Institutional Entrepreneurship Capabilities Matter?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Alfred Marcus & Paul Shrivastava & Sanjay Sharma & Stefano Pogutz (ed.), Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy, chapter 0, pages 177-193, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01589-1_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137015891_10
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    1. Jamalnia, Aboozar & Gong, Yu & Govindan, Kannan & Bourlakis, Michael & Mangla, Sachin Kumar, 2023. "A decision support system for selection and risk management of sustainability governance approaches in multi-tier supply chain," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 264(C).
    2. K. T. Shibin & Angappa Gunasekaran & Thanos Papadopoulos & Rameshwar Dubey & Manju Singh & Samuel Fosso Wamba, 2016. "Enablers and Barriers of Flexible Green Supply Chain Management: A Total Interpretive Structural Modeling Approach," Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Springer;Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management, vol. 17(2), pages 171-188, June.
    3. Grimm, Jörg H. & Hofstetter, Joerg S. & Sarkis, Joseph, 2014. "Critical factors for sub-supplier management: A sustainable food supply chains perspective," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 152(C), pages 159-173.

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