Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources: A Literature Review
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in: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Jahrgang 17, Nr. 4, 07.2010, S. 230-245.
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T1 - Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources:
T2 - A Literature Review
AU - Gold, Stefan
AU - Seuring, Stefan
AU - Beske, Philip
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - On the basis of a content analysis, this paper explores the role of sustainable supply chain management as a catalyst of generating valuable inter-organizational resources and thus possible sustained inter-firm competitive advantage through collaboration on environmental and social issues. Drawing on the resource-based view and its extension, the relational view, this paper highlights that partner-focused supply management capabilities evolve to corporate core competences as competition shifts from an inter-firm to an inter-supplychain level. The 'collaborative paradigm' in supply chain management regards strategic collaboration as a crucial source of competitive advantage. Collaboration is even more essential when supply chains aim at ensuring simultaneously economic, environmental and social performance on a product's total life-cycle basis. Inter-firm resources and capabilities emerging from supply-chain-wide collaboration are prone to become sources of sustained inter-firm competitive advantage, since they are socially complex, causally ambiguous and historically grown and hence particularly difficult to imitate by competitors.
AB - On the basis of a content analysis, this paper explores the role of sustainable supply chain management as a catalyst of generating valuable inter-organizational resources and thus possible sustained inter-firm competitive advantage through collaboration on environmental and social issues. Drawing on the resource-based view and its extension, the relational view, this paper highlights that partner-focused supply management capabilities evolve to corporate core competences as competition shifts from an inter-firm to an inter-supplychain level. The 'collaborative paradigm' in supply chain management regards strategic collaboration as a crucial source of competitive advantage. Collaboration is even more essential when supply chains aim at ensuring simultaneously economic, environmental and social performance on a product's total life-cycle basis. Inter-firm resources and capabilities emerging from supply-chain-wide collaboration are prone to become sources of sustained inter-firm competitive advantage, since they are socially complex, causally ambiguous and historically grown and hence particularly difficult to imitate by competitors.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Sustainable Supply Chain Management
KW - Sustainable development
KW - inter-organizational resources
KW - resource-based view
KW - case studies
KW - Literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949320389&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/csr.207
DO - 10.1002/csr.207
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 17
SP - 230
EP - 245
JO - Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
JF - Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
SN - 1535-3958
IS - 4
ER -