Understanding supplier sustainability performance: The role of dependence and relational capital

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2019-12

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Akın Ateş, Melek
Güleryüz, Atakan
Güleryüz, İrem
Arslan, Ataberk

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With increasing stakeholder pressure to improve sustainability performance, firms focus on understanding how buyer-supplier relationship characteristics play a role in encouraging or jeopardizing supplier sustainability efforts. In this study, we examine how buyer-supplier dependence and relational capital affect the environmental and social performance of suppliers. We adopt an embedded, multiple-case study design, and examine five large buying firms in Turkey and their multiple suppliers at the dyadic level. Our findings suggest that there is a complex interplay between dependence and relational capital, illustrating both complementary and conflicting roles on supplier sustainability performance. We develop propositions to be tested in future studies.

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Dependence, Relational capital, Supplier sustainability performance

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http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/1031
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/58110

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ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi

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Department of Economics, Article

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M. Akın Ateş, A. Güleryüz, İ. Güleryüz, and A. Arslan, “Understanding supplier sustainability performance: The role of dependence and relational capital,” ODTÜ Gelişme Dergisi, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 97–127, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://www2.feas.metu.edu.tr/metusd/ojs/index.php/metusd/article/view/1031.