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TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing global supplier competences for supply chain sustainability
T2 - The effects of institutional pressures on certification adoption
AU - Pereira, Michele M.O.
AU - Silva, Minelle
AU - Hendry, Linda
PY - 2023/11/6
Y1 - 2023/11/6
N2 - Due to institutional pressures faced by companies in their business environment, this paper investigates how sustainability certification adoption affects global suppliers' competences. Using multiple case studies, managers of 20 export-oriented firms were interviewed, and secondary data were collected and analysed through inductive content analysis. Findings show normative and mimetic pressures as central for sustainability implementation by coffee suppliers. Additionally, we found that as a result of suppliers' sustainability improvement in their own operations, during the certification adoption, new competences emerged going beyond the triple bottom line dimensions, including improvements in aspects of institutional dimension of sustainability. In contrast to previous research in supply chain sustainability that emphasises coercive pressures, this paper demonstrates the role of normative and mimetic institutional pressures in developing new supplier competences. In doing so, we draw on the role of certification adoption in influencing global suppliers and hence sustainability throughout the supply chain.
AB - Due to institutional pressures faced by companies in their business environment, this paper investigates how sustainability certification adoption affects global suppliers' competences. Using multiple case studies, managers of 20 export-oriented firms were interviewed, and secondary data were collected and analysed through inductive content analysis. Findings show normative and mimetic pressures as central for sustainability implementation by coffee suppliers. Additionally, we found that as a result of suppliers' sustainability improvement in their own operations, during the certification adoption, new competences emerged going beyond the triple bottom line dimensions, including improvements in aspects of institutional dimension of sustainability. In contrast to previous research in supply chain sustainability that emphasises coercive pressures, this paper demonstrates the role of normative and mimetic institutional pressures in developing new supplier competences. In doing so, we draw on the role of certification adoption in influencing global suppliers and hence sustainability throughout the supply chain.
KW - Supply chain sustainability; competence; certification; supplier country context; institutional pressures; emerging economy
KW - Geography, Planning and Development
KW - Strategy and Management
KW - Business and International Management
KW - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
KW - competence
KW - emerging economy
KW - supply chain sustainability
KW - institutional pressures
KW - supplier country context
KW - certification
U2 - 10.1002/bse.3363
DO - 10.1002/bse.3363
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 4244
EP - 4265
JO - Business Strategy and the Environment
JF - Business Strategy and the Environment
SN - 0964-4733
IS - 7
ER -