Purpose – This paper aims to explore the effect of business strategy on socially responsible supply chain management (SR‐SCM). Design/methodology/approach – This study draws on data from 178 UK‐based companies, and 340 buyer‐supplier relationships. A novel data collection approach is...

Responsible supply chain management (RSCM) can help protect a firm's corporate reputation by shielding it from negative media attention and consumer boycotts. RSCM can also enhance a firm's corporate reputation, which allows firms to secure business contracts and penetrate new market segments...

Purpose – This paper applies the logic of bounded rationality to corporate reputation management and explores how constraints posed by bounded rationality impact on firms' implementation of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).Design/methodology/approach – This study draws on primary...

Purpose: This study evaluates the relationships between management, measurement and performance of sustainability in supply chains. We develop a framework, which explores these links through decoupling as articulated by institutional theory. We draw on a conceptual continuum of...