European Business Review: Volume 29 Issue 3

Guest editorial

David Eriksson, Per Hilletofth

Towards socially sustainable supply chains – themes and challenges

Maisam Abbasi

The purpose of this article is to explore and classify the pattern of themes and challenges in developing socially sustainable supply chains.

Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism?: An empirical study among executives in the Bangladeshi RMG supply chain

Enrico Fontana

This e-book sheds light on the concept of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chains within a developing country context. This paper aims to investigate…

Professionalism as social responsibility in procurement and administration

Joshua Steinfeld, Clifford McCue, Eric Prier

The purpose of this empirical study is to identify the job tasks where decisions regarding social responsibility are likely to occur and assess the potential connections between…

Managing social responsibility in Chinese agriculture supply chains through the “a company + farmers” model

Shaoling Fu, Yuanzhu Zhan, Kim Hua Tan

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received a large amount of attention in research and in practice. As a response to the growing awareness of and concern about social and…

Foliated networks to analyze moral responsibility: a conceptual model

David Eriksson, Per Hilletofth

This study aims to explore how the flow of moral responsibility in supply chains can be understood through an analysis of material, monetary and information flows.

“We have always been responsible”: A social memory approach to responsibility in supply chains

Olof Brunninge, Helgi-Valur Fridriksson

The aim of this study is to discuss what implications referencing to the past can have on how firms manage their supply chains and communicate about them, drawing on the social…