Individual Competences for Sustainable Purchasing and Supply Management (SPSM)
| Autor: | Lydia Bals, Thomas Johnsen, Heike Schulze |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Knowledge management
Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Skills 05 social sciences Professional development Systematic literature review Purchasing and supply management Transportation Purchasing Interviews Sustainability Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Supply network 050211 marketing Business Situational ethics Competences Empowerment Competence (human resources) 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. 49(3):287-304 |
| ISSN: | 1758-664X 0960-0035 |
| Popis: | PurposeImplementing sustainability into global supply networks remains a challenge for companies. Purchasing and supply management (PSM) interacts closely with supply network actors, thus influencing how the firm’s value creation is delivered. While previous sustainable PSM (SPSM) research has shed light on how to manage sustainability on an organizational level, the individual competences PSM professionals require are less understood. The paper aims to discuss this issue.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a systematic literature review to determine the current research coverage of specific competences and knowledge required to implement sustainability. The authors complemented this with data from 46 interviews with practitioners. From coding the data with NVivo, a first comprehensive competence overview for SPSM was developed.FindingsThe literature review results, complemented with interview data, highlight that functional-oriented, cognition-oriented, social-oriented and meta-oriented competences form part of a comprehensive SPSM competence model. We propose a framework that includes these, and integrates two behavioral moderators on the organizational level, i.e. situational enabling, as well as empowerment and obligation.Research limitations/implicationsWhile the proposed framework provides a basic first systematization of SPSM competences, further research is needed to extend it. There is ample opportunity to shed further light on both individual and organizational-level factors that influence the application of SPSM competences, and therefore SPSM behavior.Practical implicationsThe results have implications for higher education and professional training programs in companies. The framework provides an overview of competences needed for SPSM. The discussion highlights the need to apply education and training methods for different types of competences that are suitable for conveying implicit knowledge apart from explicit knowledge.Originality/valueAdressing a current research gap in sustainability-related competences in PSM, the overall framework highlights SPSM competences of interest to both scholars and managers alike. |
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