Environmental development of emerging economy suppliers: Antecedents and outcomes

Matthias Ehrgott, Felix Reimann, Lutz Kaufmann, Craig Carter

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Abstract

As supply chains spread toward emerging economies, Western buying firms frequently face the question of whether they should commit resources to develop their suppliers in these regions in terms of environmental issues. Supplier development researchers have just begun to consider environmental aspects, and thus far, the peer-reviewed literature has remained primarily qualitative, and often descriptive. Large-scale empirical evidence indicating the antecedents and benefits of environmental supplier development for a buying firm is still scarce. Addressing this gap, we use stakeholder theory to complement and extend the work of Ehrgott et al. (2011) and investigate how pressures from customers, governments, and employees act as antecedents to environmental supplier development. Furthermore, we build on the resource-based view to examine how supplier capabilities, buying firm environmental reputation, and organizational learning in the buying firm can result from such supplier development initiatives. We test the resulting model with a sample of 244 corporate procurement executives from the United States and Germany.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)131-147
Number of pages17
JournalJournal of Business Logistics
Volume34
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2013

Keywords

  • emerging markets
  • environmental sustainability
  • international purchasing
  • resource-based view
  • stakeholder theory
  • supplier development

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
  • Management Science and Operations Research

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