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Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain

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Special Issue of Supply Chain Management edited by Adam Lindgreen, Fran?ois Maon, Val?rie Swaen and Jo?lle Vanhamme; Deadline 31 Jul 2007

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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:27:00 +0200
From: "Lindgreen, A." <A.Lindgreen@tm.tue.nl>

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Call for Papers

Special Issue on
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management announces the call for papers for a special issue on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain. The journal is a leader in the field of supply chain management research, and is included in the ISI Citation Index. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2007.

Purpose of the special issue

The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is one in a series of related business philosophies, including corporate citizenship, corporate social responsiveness, and corporate social performance. The idea behind these concepts is that it is no longer enough for organizations to be concerned only with seeking a profit – they should also give something back to the society at large, for example their employees or the local society in which they operate. To secure its CSR commitments and goals the organization must work closely together with its suppliers. This means that the organization must ensure that its suppliers comply with the organization’s CSR goals. But, although much has been researched and written about CSR, much less is known about supply-chain CSR. This special issue seeks to address these gaps.

Specific topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • The domain and conceptual foundations of supply-chain CSR.
  • Evolution of supply-chain CSR.
  • Implementation of supply-chain CSR.
  • Supply-chain CSR in various markets, including B2B and B2C.
  • Management of supply-chain CSR relationships.
  • Organizational requirements for securing successful supply-chain CSR relationships.
  • The role of manufacturing and information technologies in building, maintaining, and enhancing supply-chain CSR.
  • Profitability and other advantages of realizing a supply-chain CSR perspective.
  • Supply-chain CSR in developed and developing countries.
  • Assessment tools for questioning, identifying, and prioritizing critical aspects of supply-chain CSR relationships.
  • Tools for evaluating suppliers that must comply with supply-chain CSR requirements.
  • Best practices relating to the above points.

Preference will be given to empirical papers, both qualitative and quantitative, although theoretical papers that examine key issues in supply-chain CSR or offer comprehensive frameworks of organizations’ realizing supply-chain CSR are also welcomed. As Supply Chain Management is widely read by an academic and business audience, all submissions should include implications for practitioners. 

Processes for the submission of papers

Papers submitted must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently be under consideration for publication. Submissions should be approximately 6,000 words in length. Copies should be submitted via email Word attachment (in one file including all figures and tables) to the special issue editors. The first page must contain the title, author/s, and contact information for the author(s). For additional guidelines including the requirement for a structured abstract, please see the "Notes for Contributors" from a recent issue of Supply Chain Management, or see the home page at . Suitable articles will be subjected to a double-blind review; hence authors should not identify themselves in the body of the paper.

Please address questions to the special issue editors:

Adam Lindgreen, PhD
Department of Organisation Science and Marketing; Faculty of Technology Management
TEMA 0.07; Eindhoven University of Technology
Den Dolech 2, Postbus 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Telephone: + 31 40 247 3700; Email: a.lindgreen@tm.tue.nl

François Maon
IAG-Louvain School of Management; Université catholique de Louvain
Place des Doyens 1, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Telephone: + 32 1047 8457; Email: maon@mark.ucl.ac.be

Valérie Swaen, PhD
IAG-Louvain School of Management; Université catholique de Louvain
Place des Doyens 1, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Telephone: + 32 1047 9156; Email: swaen@mark.ucl.ac.be

Joëlle Vanhamme, PhD
Department of Marketing; RSM Erasmus Univesity
Burg. Oudlaan 50, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Telephone: + 31 10 408 1194; Email: jvanhamme@rsm.nl.

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