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Companies’ contribution to sustainability through global supply chains

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Thorlakson, Tannis [Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Stanford University, Stanford] de Zegher, Joann F. [Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA 94305; cSchool of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, Stanford University] Lambin, Eric [UCL]

Global supply chains play a critical role in many of the most pressing environmental stresses and social struggles identified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Responding to calls from the global community, companies are adopting a variety of voluntary practices to improve the environmental and/or social management of their suppliers’ activities. We develop a global survey of 449 publicly listed companies in the food, textile, and wood-products sectors with annual reports in English to provide insight into how the private sector contributes to advancing the SDGs via such sustainablesourcing practices. We find that while 52% of companies use at least one sustainable-sourcing practice, these practices are limited in scope; 71% relates to only one or a few input materials and 60.5% apply to only first-tier suppliers. We also find that sustainable-sourcing practices typically address a small subset of the sustainability challenges laid out by the SDGs, primarily focusing on labor rights and compliance with national laws. Consistent with existing hypotheses, companies that face consumer and civil society pressure are associated with a significantly higher probability of adopting sustainablesourcing practices. Our findings highlight the opportunities and limitations of corporate sustainable-sourcing practices in addressing the myriad sustainability challenges facing our world today.

Type de document Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Type d'accès Accès libre
Année de publication 2018
Langue Anglais
Information sur le périodique "Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America" - Vol. 115, no.9, p. 2072-2077 (2018)
Peer reviewed oui
Editeur National academy of sciences
issn 0027-8424
e-issn 1091-6490
Statut de la publication Publié
Affiliations UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
Mots-clés responsible supply chain management | voluntary sustainability standards | private governance | sustainable development goals ; responsible supply chain manangement ; voluntary sustainability standards ; private governance ; sustainable development goals
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Référence bibliographique Thorlakson, Tannis ; de Zegher, Joann F. ; Lambin, Eric. Companies’ contribution to sustainability through global supply chains. In: Proceedings of the National academy of sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 115, no.9, p. 2072-2077 (2018)
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