Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources: A Literature Review

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources: A Literature Review. / Gold, Stefan; Seuring, Stefan; Beske, Philip.
In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Vol. 17, No. 4, 07.2010, p. 230-245.

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title = "Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Inter-Organizational Resources:: A Literature Review",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Sustainable development, inter-organizational resources, resource-based view, case studies, Literature review",
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year = "2010",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1002/csr.207",
language = "English",
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journal = "Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management",
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