Supplier Engagement in Sustainability Programs: A Field Experiment of Enabling Versus Coercive Formalization
| Autor: | Ralph Hamann, Joerg S Hofstetter, Frank Brück, Franz Wohlgezogen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Organizational architecture Supply chain management Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Supply chain sustainability 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Environmental studies Business economics 0502 economics and business Sustainability Business Bureaucracy 050203 business & management Industrial organization 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Organization & Environment. 34:435-458 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7417 1086-0266 |
| Popis: | Formal, compliance-focused governance for supply chain sustainability initiatives has a mixed empirical track record. We build on classic research on bureaucracy to examine how “enabling” and “coercive” formalization at the buyer–supplier interface affect attitudes, an important precursor to behavioral engagement. We conduct a randomized field experiment with the supplier community of a South African insurance company to directly compare treatment effects of enabling and coercive interventions. We report and discuss the enabling intervention’s positive attitudinal effects and the moderation of these effects by supplier characteristics. Our findings also reveal some notable null effects, especially from the coercive intervention. We believe this work contributes to a more nuanced understanding of formal governance choices in supply chains and their impact on supplier engagement. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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