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Inter-organisational Design of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives

Increasing the Legitimacy of Sustainability Strategies for Supply Chains

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  1. Nils Peters
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Part of the book series: Supply Chain Management (SCM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 1-17

  3. Conceptual aspects of voluntary sustainability initiatives in the context of proactive sustainability strategies for supply chains

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 18-53

  4. Theoretical aspects of designing voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 54-88

  5. Initial framework: a resource-based view of institutional entrepreneurship in the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 89-94

  6. An exploratory study of the institutional entrepreneur's resources in the design of legitimised voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 95-132

  7. Development of the research model: resources, the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains, and legitimacy

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 133-139

  8. A confirmatory study of the institutional entrepreneur's resources in the design of legitimised voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 140-180

  9. Conclusion, further research and implications for business practice

    • Nils Peters
    Pages 181-192

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 193-226
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About this book

Voluntary sustainability initiatives (VSIs) have become the most applied approach for companies to set environmental or social obligations for their supply-chains. However, companies face two main challenges in the design of VSIs: Firstly, they recognise acceptance problems by different stakeholders and opposition by competing initiatives. Secondly, they experience significant resource demands to set up VSIs and ask for more efficient solutions. Nils Peters addresses these challenges by empirically analysing the key resources and complementarities that enable companies to efficiently establish effective designs of VSIs both in terms of participants’ compliance and the acceptance of initiative-external stakeholders.

About the author

Dr. Nils Peters received a doctor’s degree from the University of St.Gallen (HSG) in business administration at the chair of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stölzle. Since then he works as management consultant.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Inter-organisational Design of Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives

  • Book Subtitle: Increasing the Legitimacy of Sustainability Strategies for Supply Chains

  • Authors: Nils Peters

  • Series Title: Supply Chain Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8720-4

  • Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden

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

  • Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8349-2151-2Published: 24 February 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8349-8720-4Published: 03 July 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2627-292X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2627-2938

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management

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