Sustainability and corporate social responsibility in supply chains: The state of research in supply chain management and business ethics journals

TY - JOUR

T1 - Sustainability and corporate social responsibility in supply chains

T2 - The state of research in supply chain management and business ethics journals

AU - Quarshie, Anne M.

AU - Salmi, Asta

AU - Leuschner, Rudolf

N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful for the comments and guidance provided by the editor, George Zsidisin, and reviewers, which resulted in a greatly improved paper. We are also thankful for the feedback on this research by Finn Wynstra, Craig Carter, Lisa Ellram, Guido Palazzo, and participants of the IPSERA 2012 conference, among others. The first author acknowledges Grant funding from the Foundation for Economic Education (Liikesivistysrahasto) and the HSE Foundation . Publisher Copyright: © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.

PY - 2016/6/1

Y1 - 2016/6/1

N2 - Sustainability has become a popular topic, not only in business research at large, but specifically in the supply chain management (SCM) discipline. In addition, the business ethics (BE) field has an extensive stream of literature focusing on supply chain topics. While some exchange of ideas can be witnessed, the two streams developed largely independently. A key purpose of this article is to examine and contrast existing research and knowledge creation, focusing on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues in supply chains, within and across these two disciplines. The in-depth systematic literature review covers 195 articles, published in 12 peer-reviewed journals from 2007 to 2013, examining the methodological and theoretical approaches, as well as the main research focus areas. We found highly complementary research topic areas but only limited synergy and dialogue between the disciplines. The research area at large would benefit from greater integration. Based on our findings, we propose a future research agenda that connects across the disciplines and highlights key areas that would benefit from further inquiry.

AB - Sustainability has become a popular topic, not only in business research at large, but specifically in the supply chain management (SCM) discipline. In addition, the business ethics (BE) field has an extensive stream of literature focusing on supply chain topics. While some exchange of ideas can be witnessed, the two streams developed largely independently. A key purpose of this article is to examine and contrast existing research and knowledge creation, focusing on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues in supply chains, within and across these two disciplines. The in-depth systematic literature review covers 195 articles, published in 12 peer-reviewed journals from 2007 to 2013, examining the methodological and theoretical approaches, as well as the main research focus areas. We found highly complementary research topic areas but only limited synergy and dialogue between the disciplines. The research area at large would benefit from greater integration. Based on our findings, we propose a future research agenda that connects across the disciplines and highlights key areas that would benefit from further inquiry.

KW - A systematic literature review

KW - Corporate social responsibility

KW - Ethics

KW - Purchasing and supply management

KW - Supply chain management

KW - Sustainability

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2015.11.001

DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pursup.2015.11.001

M3 - Article

SN - 1478-4092

VL - 22

SP - 82

EP - 97

JO - Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

JF - Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management

IS - 2

ER -