Environmental and social supply chain management sustainability practices: construct development and measurement

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and operationalise the concept of supply chain management sustainability practices. Based on a multi-stage procedure involving a literature review, expert Q-sort and pre-test process, pilot test and survey of 156 supply chain directors and managers in Ir...

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Published in:Production planning & control Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 673 - 690
Main Authors: Marshall, Donna, McCarthy, Lucy, Heavey, Ciarán, McGrath, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Taylor & Francis 11.06.2015
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects:
Best practice
construct development
Construction
Environment management
Environmental monitoring
environmental sustainability
Management
Mathematical models
Pilots
social sustainability
Strategy
Studies
Supply chain management
Supply chains
Sustainability
Sustainability management
sustainable supply chain management
Ireland
ANE, Eire
ISSN:0953-7287, 1366-5871
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Summary:The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise and operationalise the concept of supply chain management sustainability practices. Based on a multi-stage procedure involving a literature review, expert Q-sort and pre-test process, pilot test and survey of 156 supply chain directors and managers in Ireland, we develop a multidimensional conceptualisation and measure of social and environmental supply chain management sustainability practices. The research findings show theoretically sound constructs based on four underlying sustainable supply chain management practices: monitoring, implementing systems, new product and process development and strategy redefinition. A two-factor model is then identified as the most reliable: comprising process-based and market-based practices.
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ISSN:0953-7287
1366-5871
DOI:10.1080/09537287.2014.963726