Sustainable procurement: Building legitimacy in the supply network

Florence Crespin-Mazet and Emmanuelle Dontenwill
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Florence Crespin-Mazet: Euromed Marseille - École de management - Association Euromed Management - Marseille
Emmanuelle Dontenwill: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: The challenges introduced by sustainable development deeply affect purchasing and supply management practices and therefore foster a change in the firm's supply network. After a literature review on supply network management, sustainable sourcing and legitimacy, this paper presents the results of an in-depth case study of a gardening distributor which adopted a sustainable strategy. The analysis illustrates how the firm conquers its legitimacy in sustainable development through the evolution of its supply network. The paper highlights three types of legitimacy – product legitimacy, corporate legitimacy and cause legitimacy – and reveals the different roles of business and non-business actors in the firm's extended sustainable supply network.

Date: 2012-12-01
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Published in Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management, 2012, 18 (4), 207-217 p. ⟨10.1016/j.pursup.2012.01.002⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.pursup.2012.01.002

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