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Ensuring Sub-Suppliers’ Compliance with Corporate Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains

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Firms increasingly strive for social and environmental sustainability in their supply chains. The present research particularly concerns how focal firms can ensure sub‐suppliers’ compliance with firms’ respective corporate sustainability standards (CSS). Building on three exploratory research studies, the research at hand investigates subsupplier management practices, and related critical success factors (CSFs). The findings outline the feasibility of managing sub-suppliers to ensure their compliance with CSS. Feasible sub-supplier management practices can be distinguished by the two dimensions of assessment and collaboration. The present research highlights the related influential and enabling factors as well as differences compared to traditional supplier management approaches. In addition, it identifies 14 CSFs to the management of sub-suppliers for CSS compliance. These CSFs can be classified into (1) focal firm-related, (2) relationshiprelated, (3) supply chain partner-related, and (4) context-related CSFs. Finally, an initial structural model highlighting the inter-relationships of CSFs is developed.

This chapter is based on and summarizes the author’s related dissertation project. For more details, see Grimm (2013) as well as the individual paper publications as indicated.

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Grimm, J. (2016). Ensuring Sub-Suppliers’ Compliance with Corporate Sustainability Standards in Supply Chains. In: Bogaschewsky, R., Eßig, M., Lasch, R., Stölzle, W. (eds) Supply Management Research. Advanced Studies in Supply Management. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-08809-5_2

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