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Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives (2017)
Journal Article
Blome, C., Foerstl, K., & Schleper, M. C. (2017). Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.03.052

Buying firms are increasingly confronted with compliance scandals in their upstream supply chain, for which they are held accountable by their stakeholders. Purely symbolic practices, typically referred to as greenwashing, as well as substantive prac... Read More about Antecedents of green supplier championing and greenwashing: An empirical study on leadership and ethical incentives.

Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks (2017)
Journal Article
Busse, C., Schleper, M. C., Weilenmann, J., & Wagner, S. M. (2017). Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks. International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPDLM-02-2015-0043

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how buying firms facing low supply chain visibility can utilize their stakeholder network to identify salient supply chain sustainability risks (SCSR). Design/methodology/approach – The study empl... Read More about Extending the supply chain visibility boundary: utilizing stakeholders for identifying supply chain sustainability risks.

Standardization efforts: the relationship between knowledge dimensions, search processes and innovation outcomes (2015)
Journal Article
Xie, Z., Hall, J., McCarthy, I. P., Skitmore, M., & Shen, L. (2016). Standardization efforts: the relationship between knowledge dimensions, search processes and innovation outcomes. Technovation, 48-49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2015.12.002

We explore how a standardization effort (i.e., when a firm pursues standards to further innovation) involves different search processes for knowledge and innovation outcomes. Using an inductive case study of Vanke, a leading Chinese property develope... Read More about Standardization efforts: the relationship between knowledge dimensions, search processes and innovation outcomes.

Conflict minerals and supply chain due diligence: an exploratory study of multi-tier supply chains (2015)
Journal Article
Hofmann, H., Schleper, M. C., & Blome, C. (2018). Conflict minerals and supply chain due diligence: an exploratory study of multi-tier supply chains. Journal of Business Ethics, 147(1), 115-141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2963-z

As recently stakeholders complain about the use of conflict minerals in consumer products that are often invisible to them in final products, firms across industries implement conflict mineral management practices. Conflict minerals are those, whose... Read More about Conflict minerals and supply chain due diligence: an exploratory study of multi-tier supply chains.