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Piggy in the Middle: How Direct Customer Power Impacts First-tier Supplier Socially Responsible Procurement Practices and Performance
Date Issued
2016
Date Available
2017-11-22T02:00:09Z
Abstract
Companies are faced with a choice of which type of power to use in their efforts to persuade their first-tier suppliers to adopt socially responsible procurement practices with key second-tier suppliers. However, we know little about how first-tier suppliers will react to different types of power and which are most effective in encouraging the adoption of socially responsible procurement practices. We are also ignorant of the impact of these practices on first-tier suppliers' performance. This paper uses bases of power theory to examine the impact of buyer companies' power usage (non-mediated and mediated) on first-tier suppliers’ adoption of socially responsible procurement practices (process-based and market-based) with their own (second-tier) suppliers. We surveyed managers responsible for sustainable supply chain management in 156 firms and analyzed the results using structural equation modeling. Our findings show that non-mediated power use (expert and referent) influences the adoption of process-based and market-based practices, while mediated power use (coercion, legitimacy and reward) has no significant impact on the adoption of either type of practice. Additionally, we find that the adoption of market-based socially responsible procurement practices leads to enhanced performance for first-tier suppliers who adopt these practices with their second-tier suppliers.
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Journal Article
Publisher
Springer
Journal
Journal of Business Ethics
Copyright (Published Version)
2016 Springer
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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