THE ROLE OF PURCHASING IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION ANALYSIS
Abstract
Researchers in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have examined a broad array of activities including environmental management, ethical issues, the advancement of a diverse workplace, safety, human rights, philanthropic donations, and community involvement. Yet despite over 30 years of inquiry in this field, there has been no holistic, empirical investigation of the particular dimensions or sets of activities that are encompassed by CSR and the relationship between ethics and CSR. In the purchasing and supply management literature, similar sets of activities have been investigated, but generally as separate, standalone streams of research with little recognition of their potential inter‐relatedness. The current study empirically identified the dimensions of purchasing's involvement in CSR and applied the label purchasing social responsibility (PSR).
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Transactional cost economics and the natural resource based view of the firm have limitations in addressing the complex and multidimensional aspects of sustainable procurement.
“While transactional cost economics and the natural resource based view of the firm have been usefully applied by Pagell et al (2010) to understand the emergence of sustainable supply chain practices, in our view such approaches have limitations in addressing the complex and multidimensional aspects of sustainable procurement (Carter & Jennings 2004).”
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Carter and Jennings (2004) have shown that government regulation was not a significant driver of sustainable procurement.
“Contradicting these findings however, Carter and Jennings (2004) have shown that government regulation was not a significant driver of sustainable procurement (Carter & Jennings 2004).”
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- Authors
- Carter, C. R., & Jennings, M. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- ORCID
- Carter, Craig R.
- Venue
- Journal of Business Logistics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2004-03
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 145-186
- ISSN
- 0735-3766 (ISSN-L)
- 2158-1592
- OpenAlex
- W2041905252
- Cited by
- 762
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 21.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Business Logistics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability
- Keywords
- corporate social responsibility, purchasing, supply management, ethics, supplier relationships, corporate philanthropy
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