Socially sustainable supply chain : lessons from two portuguese fashion companies

• Autor(a) principal: Mourão, Maria Madalena Clemente
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/29189
• topic: Corporate social responsibility; Corporate sustainability; Supply chain; Supply chain management; Sustainable supply chain management; Cadeia de fornecimento socialmente sustentável; Lições de duas empresas portuguesas de moda; Gestão sustentável da cadeia de fornecimento; Responsabilidade social corporativa; Sustentabilidade corporativa; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The aim of this dissertation is to provide an overview of how companies can integrate corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chain management (SCM) in order to have a sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). The focus is on the social dimension of CSR and the ultimate goal is to contribute to the knowledge regarding how companies can ensure ethical standards in the factories of their suppliers. To answer our research question, we focus on the fast fashion industry, which increasingly outsources production to less developed countries. We have adopted a qualitative data approach and conducted a multiple case study about two Portuguese fashion companies with similar concerns regarding the importance of ethics in the management of their businesses but organisationally different: Parfois and SONAE Sports & Fashion. The results show that the most important tools to manage social issues are having the suppliers to commit to a code of conduct (CoC) and monitor the compliance of it through internal and external auditing. Furthermore, these need to be combined with a particular type of relationship between the supplier and the company: a cooperative, long term one.