Inter-organisational Design of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives : Increasing the Legitimacy of Sustainability Strategies for Supply Chains
by Nils Peters
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2010
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| Authors: | Peters, Nils |
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Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden |
| Subject: | Lieferkette | Supply chain | Nachhaltigkeit | Sustainability | Ressourcenorientierter Ansatz | Resource-based view | Entrepreneurship | Entrepreneurship approach | Institutionenökonomik | Institutional economics | Schätzung | Estimation | Theorie | Theory | Umweltbezogenes Management | Corporate Social Responsibility | Wertschöpfungskette |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com] ; Description [swbplus.bsz-bw.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (XXIII, 226p. 23 illus, online resource) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Literaturverz. S. 193 - 222 Geleitwort; Vorwort; Index; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Zusammenfassung; Abstract; 1. Introduction; 1.1. Relevance of this research on the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and research objectives; 1.2. Research questions; 1.3. Positioning of the research within scientific theory; 1.4. Outline of the thesis; 2. Conceptual aspects of voluntary sustainability initiatives in the context of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains 2.1. Conceptual foundation and constituent elements of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains2.2. The objective to retain legitimacy with proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains; 2.3. Designs of voluntary sustainability initiatives in the context of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains and legitimacy; 2.4. Intermediary recapitulation: relevance and legitimising elements of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains; 3. Theoretical aspects of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains 3.1. Presentation of the theories applied to voluntary sustainability initiatives and legitimacy in the literature3.2. Institutional theory and its contribution to the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains; 3.3. Institutional entrepreneurship and its contribution to the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains; 3.4. The resource-based view and its contribution to the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains 4. Initial framework: a resource-based view of institutional entrepreneurship in the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains4.1. Summary of theoretical contributions to the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains; 4.2. Formulation of a resource-based view on institutional entrepreneurship in the context of the inter-organisational design of voluntary sustainability initiatives; 5. An exploratory study of the institutional entrepreneur's resources in the design of legitimised voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains109 5.1. Research method applied: exploratory case study research5.2. Presentation of the case studies: the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains; 5.3. The design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and the institutional entrepreneur's resources; 6. Development of the research model: resources, the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains, and legitimacy; 6.1. Model of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and formulation of hypotheses 6.2. Summary of hypotheses on the legitimised design of voluntary sustainability initiatives |
| ISBN: | 978-3-8349-8720-4 ; 978-3-8349-2151-2 |
| Other identifiers: | 10.1007/978-3-8349-8720-4 [DOI] |
| Classification: | Beschaffung, Materialwirtschaft ; Umweltbelastung durch Industrie, Bergbau und Energieerzeugung |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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