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Sustainability in Supply Chains

A Study on the Effects of Sustainability on Supplier-Buyer Relationships

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Authors:
  1. Thomas Leppelt

    1. Chair of Supply Chain Management, Universität Nürnberg/Erlangen, Nürnberg, Germany

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  • Publication in the field of economic science
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Essays on Supply Chain Management (ESCM)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas Leppelt
    Pages 1-7

  3. Sustainability Beyond Boundaries

    • Thomas Leppelt
    Pages 9-31

  4. CSR in Buyer-Supplier Relationships

    • Thomas Leppelt
    Pages 33-76

  5. Drivers and Mechanisms of Purchasing-Marketing Integration

    • Thomas Leppelt
    Pages 77-115

  6. Final Conclusion

    • Thomas Leppelt
    Pages 117-121
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About this book

​Sustainability advanced to an omnipresent topic among academics and business leaders, while at the same time, a growing share of a firm’s total expenditure accounts for purchased products and materials. Even though suppliers become increasingly important for their buyers with regards to sustainability, academic research still lacks a detailed understanding of how sustainability considerations affect the relationship between buyers and suppliers. Thomas Leppelt contributes to extant sustainability literature across the research disciplines of supply chain management, management and marketing by cross-functionally investigating the effects of sustainability on supplier-buyer relationships from both a supplier and a buyer perspective. The results of in total three academic articles provide valuable insights on how buyers as well as suppliers deal with sustainability upstream and downstream the supply chain. The results indicate that sustainability leaders, in contrast to sustainability followers, intensively invest in sustainable supplier relationship management practices. Moreover, a became evident that the effective marketing of sustainability-related capabilities enhances a supplier’s reputation and can render comparative advantages, if it sends consistent positive signals to the market and if it integrates purchasing and marketing in the context of sustainability.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Chair of Supply Chain Management, Universität Nürnberg/Erlangen, Nürnberg, Germany

    Thomas Leppelt

About the author

Dr. Thomas Leppelt received his doctor’s degree from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg in business administration at the Chair of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Evi Hartmann. He is working in the automotive industry. In his research he focuses on sustainability aspects in interdependent supply chain settings.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainability in Supply Chains

  • Book Subtitle: A Study on the Effects of Sustainability on Supplier-Buyer Relationships

  • Authors: Thomas Leppelt

  • Series Title: Essays on Supply Chain Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-02601-1

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-02600-4Published: 20 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-02601-1Published: 13 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2625-8668

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-8684

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 121

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Operations Management

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