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Organizations face increased pressure from stakeholders to incorporate a
plethora of corporate responsibility (CR) and sustainability aspects in their
business practices. Legal and extra-legal demands are dynamically changing;
almost no organizational function is unaffected. Owing to the outsourcing
wave of the last decade, in particular purchasing and supply management
(PSM) plays an ever more important role in assuring sustainable production
of the firm’s products offered in the marketplace. The supply base of many
Western firms has become increasingly global and spend volumes have shifted
towards emerging countries. In order to avoid the risk of reputational damage
to the buying company, the PSM department must ensure that their international
suppliers comply with their corporate codes of conduct and that environmental
and social misconduct at supplier premises does not occur. In
this paper, ‘‘sustainability’’ refers to the pursuit of the tripartite of economic,
environmental, and social performance.We contribute to prior research in the
fields of sustainability and CR by extending insights of the dynamic capabilities
view to analyze how the PSM function integrates sustainability
aspects in its global supplier management processes. Based on four case
studies in the chemical industry, we propose that profound sustainable global
supplier management (SGSM) capabilities are a source of competitive advantage.
These capabilities are path dependent and particularly valuable when
organizations are receptive to external stakeholder pressure. Early movers in
the field of SGSM reap competitive benefits to a notable extent as a result of
resource accumulation and learning processes over time.
Considering the increasing international division of labor, as well as stakeholders' growing awareness of sustainability, assuring that business practices are sustainable is a major challenge. Companies have to account for the fact that any misconduct at a supplier's premises may have spillover effects that reach the manufacturer or retailer. Therefore, purchasing managers have to assure that their suppliers are compliant with sustainability standards. This, however, may induce higher purchasing costs and, as a consequence, force a trade‐off between (short term) economic (i.e., purchasing cost reduction) and social/environmental sustainability criteria. How purchasing managers evaluate this trade‐off is particularly interesting because they often receive performance‐based salaries that incentivize the reduction of purchasing costs. Our paper sheds light on this trade‐off by examining how much purchasing managers are willing to pay to assure compliance along different sustainability dimensions when selecting new suppliers in a mature market setting, namely Germany. Additionally, we identify potential (individual, professional, and organization‐related) factors that may impact the purchasing managers' willingness to pay (WTP), and examine their effects. Among the most surprising findings, purchasing managers on average are willing to pay a price premium for manuals that demonstrate compliance with the United Nationals Global Compact (UNGC). Furthermore, the results show that this WTP is mostly influenced (negatively) by self‐enhancement (on the individual level) and/or obedience to authority (on the organizational level), but the effects of company, affiliation with the UNGC, gender, or years of experience have no influence. Moreover, the WTP is higher for the social than for the environmental dimension, and the marginal effect of accreditation on WTP depends on which combinations of dimensions are accredited.
Roadway infrastructure is reaching maximum capacity in urban areas because of expanding urbanization, demographic changes, and continuously increasing freight volumes. An overview of the latest research on city logistics is needed to address these challenges, and a review of the scientific literature is presented. A specifically designed framework for systematic literature review was used to analyze 92 relevant articles from prominent electronic databases. A taxonomy of city logistics literature was created to aid academics and practitioners and to stimulate interest of other parties in this area.
Firms experience that an increasingly complex supply base is a costly investment. In order
to keep specialized suppliers but to reduce the effort of managing it, OEMs contract
second-tier firms and direct them to first-tier suppliers. We conduct four embedded case
studies in the international automotive industry to record types and possible motivations
of directed sourcing. Our findings show that directed sourcing triads may be set up to
achieve operational efficiencies but also for strategic reasons such as to gain access to
foreign markets. This research contributes to literature on triadic supply chains in general
and network buyer-supplier relationships specifically.
Die Digitale Transformation, u.a. getrieben durch die weithin sichtbare Vision der Industrie 4.0, gilt als eine der großen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Insbesondere für den Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland ergibt sich die Frage, wie KMU auf diese Transformation nicht nur vorbereitet, sondern auch bei deren Bewältigung durch Wissenstransfer aus Hochschulen heraus unter-stützt werden können. Die Vorteile, die dabei ein digitaler Wissenstransfer - Stichwort z.B. „e-Learning“ - bieten können, passen augenscheinlich gut zu den Charakteristika und Bedürfnissen von KMU. Es entstehen jedoch auch spezifische Herausforderungen. Diese liegen sowohl darin, in einer dynamischen Umgebung Themen zu identifizieren, die für die Unternehmen wichtig und interessant sind als auch in vielfältigen Akzeptanzproblematiken auf der Inhaltsebene und auch bezogen auf die Methoden des Wissenstransfers. Die hier vorgestellten Erkenntnisse, basierend auf einer Umfrage und Expertengesprächen im Rahmen des - durch den ESF und den Freistaat Bayern geförderten - mainproject2018. Sie zeigen, dass Wissenstransfer zum digitalen Wandel wohl auch aber nicht alleine durch digitale Methoden gestaltet werden kann. Denn bevor dieser von den eigentlichen Adressaten akzeptiert und genutzt wird, müssen fundamentale Vorbehalte und Widerstände abgebaut werden. Es werden daher neben den Ergebnissen der empirischen Untersuchung auch erste Überlegungen zu akzeptanzfördernden Maßnahmen im o.g. Kontext vorgestellt und diskutiert.
Im Sommer des Jahres 2022 hatte der Bayerische Landtag das neue Hochschulinnovationsgesetz (BayHIG) verabschiedet. Darin ist erstmals der Wissenstransfer als die dritte, neue Säule der Hochschulaufgaben enthalten.
Tatsächlich hat sich das IMI bereits seit 15 Jahren dem Wissenstransfer Hochschule - Wirtschaft verschrieben und zahlreiche Projekte mit unterschiedlichem Fokus erfolgreich durchgeführt. In der vorliegenden Publikation werden die bearbeiteten Themen im Wissenstransfer, die zahlreichen verschiedenen Veranstaltungsformate sowie die Drittmittelprojekte beleuchtet.
The influence of ethical culture on supplier selection in the context of sustainable sourcing
(2012)
This study investigates the transposition of herding—a phenomenon traditionally studied in the context
of asset management—into supply chain management (SCM) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Herding,
defined as the tendency of decision-makers to imitate others’ actions while disregarding private
information, frequently emerges in uncertain and volatile environments (Choi & Skiba, 2015). The
research addresses the core question: “To what extent can the phenomenon of herding typically
observed in asset management be transposed to SCM in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic?”
The pandemic created a perfect storm of conditions conducive to herding behavior: extreme
uncertainty, asymmetric information, low-quality data, and intense decision-making pressure
(Bikhchandani & Sharma, 2000). These conditions, coupled with the unparalleled disruption to global
supply chains, necessitated swift strategic decision-making among SCM executives. This study utilizes a
qualitative methodology, including semi-structured interviews with top-level supply chain executives in
the European automotive industry, to examine whether these conditions fostered behaviors analogous
to herding.