ITG Webinar dr. Chengyong Xiao: Supplier sustainability development in emerging countries

Growing evidences show that governmental and regulatory agencies in emerging countries play an increasingly active role in enforcing labor and environmental protection laws.

Against this backdrop, we conducted a longitudinal case study of nine Chinese suppliers of COSMOS in the consumer electronics industry, to explore how growing public governance interacts with buyer-driven governance in shaping supplier sustainability capability development in emerging countries.

We identified four different mechanisms through which public governance and buyer-driven governance jointly influence the supplier’s willingness and ability to transition from first-order to second-order sustainability learning. These four mechanisms are of substantially different nature, ranging from complementary, synergistic, substitutive, to even overshadowing.

As such, our findings provide a nuanced picture on the interactions between public governance and buyer-driven governance for supplier sustainability development in emerging countries. Moreover, our findings provide in-depth insights into the trajectories through which suppliers can improve sustainability performance in institutional environments characterized by different configurations of public and buyer-driven governance.

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