Inter-organisational Design of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives: Increasing the Legitimacy of Sustainability Strategies for Supply Chains

Cover......Page 1
Inter-organisational Design of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives......Page 2
Supply Chain Management......Page 3
ISBN 3834921513......Page 5
Geleitwort......Page 6
Vorwort......Page 7
Index......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Zusammenfassung......Page 20
Abstract......Page 21
1.1. Relevance of this research on the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and research objectives......Page 22
1.2. Research questions......Page 28
1.3. Positioning of the research within scientific theory......Page 30
1.4. Outline of the thesis......Page 36
2.1.1. The strategic approach of corporate sustainability......Page 39
2.1.2. Proactiveness of sustainability strategies......Page 45
2.1.3. Sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 47
2.1.4. Constituent elements of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 53
2.2.1. The legitimising role of strategic stakeholders in the design of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 54
2.2.2. A process model of involving stakeholders in the design of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 61
2.2.3. Types of stakeholder relationships in the context of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 63
2.3.1. Voluntary sustainability initiatives and proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains......Page 66
2.3.2. Legitimising elements of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 68
2.4. Intermediary recapitulation: relevance and legitimising elements of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 73
3.1. Presentation of the theories applied to voluntary sustainability initiatives and legitimacy in the literature......Page 75
3.2.1. Characterisation of institutions in theory......Page 77
3.2.2. Voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains as institutions......Page 79
3.2.3. The emergence of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains in the wider institutional field......Page 81
3.3.1. Institutional entrepreneurship as an organisational strategy to influence institutions......Page 83
3.3.2. The design of voluntary sustainability initiatives as an institutional entrepreneurship strategy......Page 84
3.3.3. The need to specify key resources to design voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 88
3.4.1. The resource-based view and the resources that enable voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 96
3.4.2. The need to specify the resources in the context of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and legitimacy......Page 104
4.1. Summary of theoretical contributions to the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 110
4.2. Formulation of a resource-based view on institutional entrepreneurship in the context of the inter-organisational design of voluntary sustainability initiatives\r......Page 113
5.1.1. Case selection......Page 116
5.1.2. Data collection......Page 120
5.1.3. Data analysis......Page 121
5.2.1. Migros: The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)......Page 124
5.2.2. Axel Springer Verlag: The Tikhvin Chalna project......Page 126
5.2.3. Coop: Basel Criteria and the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS)......Page 128
5.2.4. Unilever: The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)......Page 130
5.2.5. Nestlé: The Sustainability Agriculture Initiative (SAI)......Page 131
5.3.1. Resources leading to legitimised designs of a voluntary sustainability initiative \r......Page 132
5.3.2. Complementarities increasing the potential of resources for legitimised designs of voluntary sustainability initiatives......Page 145
6.1. Model of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and formulation of hypotheses......Page 154
6.1.1. Legitimacy in the context of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 155
6.1.2. Resources and complementarities that enable the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains......Page 156
6.2. Summary of hypotheses on the legitimised design of voluntary sustainability initiatives......Page 159
7.1. Development of the measurement model of the legitimised design of voluntary sustainability initiatives......Page 161
7.1.1. Measures for key resources and complementarities......Page 162
7.1.2. Measures for voluntary sustainability initiative design (VSI)......Page 168
7.1.3. Measures for legitimacy......Page 171
7.1.4. Selection of control variables......Page 172
7.2.1. Unit of analysis......Page 174
7.2.2. Data collection procedure, description of sample, key-informant, common-method and non-response biases\r......Page 175
7.2.3. Two-step approach of structural equation method......Page 180
7.3.1. Testing content and substantive validity......Page 181
7.3.2. Testing uni-dimensionality......Page 182
7.3.3. Testing scale reliability......Page 185
7.3.5. Testing discriminant validity......Page 190
7.3.6. Testing predictive validity......Page 192
7.3.7. Summary of measurement model testing......Page 193
7.4.1. Testing the research model......Page 195
7.4.2. Tests for mediation effects......Page 199
8.1. Conclusion......Page 202
8.2. Limitations and further research......Page 207
8.3. Implications for business practice......Page 209
References......Page 214
Appendix......Page 244