Corporate Perceptions of the Business Case for Supplier Diversity: How Socially Responsible Purchasing can ‘Pay’
In exploring corporate perceptions of the business case for supplier diversity (SD), this paper reports on a cross-national study of large purchasing organisations (LPOs) that had introduced, or were in the process of introducing, purchasing initiatives aimed at ethnic minority businesses (EMBs). Th...
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Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2009
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Στο/Στη: |
Journal of business ethics
Έτος: 2009, Τόμος: 90, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 47-60 |
Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
supplier diversity
B socially responsible purchasing B ethnic minority purchasing programmes B Business Case |
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Σύνοψη: | In exploring corporate perceptions of the business case for supplier diversity (SD), this paper reports on a cross-national study of large purchasing organisations (LPOs) that had introduced, or were in the process of introducing, purchasing initiatives aimed at ethnic minority businesses (EMBs). The research investigates how LPOs portray the benefits of this form of socially responsible purchasing and suggests a business case construct based on four component elements. It also highlights a number of contextual factors that appear to have shaped business case rationales. The paper concludes with a discussion of issues of cost and contingent influences affecting SD programmes and points to possible areas for future research. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-008-0025-5 |