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Sustainable supply chain management practices in retailing : Qualitative content analysis based on sustainability reports
Sustainable supply chain management has become an important topic in a world where consumers are demanding more and more sustainable products. Sustainable supply chain management has received major attention in both academic research and among businesses. Nevertheless, there are limited amount of research about the topic from the retailer’s perspective. Most of the existing research focuses on the manufacturing industry. Still, the significant role of retailers as an interface between the manufacturers and consumers offers attractive basis for studying retailers sustainable supply chain management. The objective of this master’s thesis is to figure out how the Finnish listed retailers are fostering sustainable supply chain management by using sustainable development as the dominant framework, and how the selected case companies are disclosing it as part of their sustainability reporting. In addition to this, case companies’ commitments towards sustainable development goals are researched as well. This research is conducted as a qualitative content analysis where case companies’ sustainability reports are analyzed from the years 2020-2022. The key research findings indicates that the selected retailers largely do have similar practices to verify sustainability of their supply chains. Among these practices, companies own operational principles and audits play a significant role in verifying supply chain sustainability. The observed practices were more reactive in nature, and the sustainability reports provided rather variable evidence of more proactive practices. However, companies utilizing GRI reporting disclosed more comprehensively and transparently proactive practices. The research findings also exposed that only two out of the four case companies have adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and integrated them into their sustainability reporting. This research studies the key practices adopted by Finnish retailers to ensure the sustainability of their supply chains and how these are ...
Sustainable supply chain management practices in retailing : Qualitative content analysis based on sustainability reports
Sustainable supply chain management has become an important topic in a world where consumers are demanding more and more sustainable products. Sustainable supply chain management has received major attention in both academic research and among businesses. Nevertheless, there are limited amount of research about the topic from the retailer’s perspective. Most of the existing research focuses on the manufacturing industry. Still, the significant role of retailers as an interface between the manufacturers and consumers offers attractive basis for studying retailers sustainable supply chain management. The objective of this master’s thesis is to figure out how the Finnish listed retailers are fostering sustainable supply chain management by using sustainable development as the dominant framework, and how the selected case companies are disclosing it as part of their sustainability reporting. In addition to this, case companies’ commitments towards sustainable development goals are researched as well. This research is conducted as a qualitative content analysis where case companies’ sustainability reports are analyzed from the years 2020-2022. The key research findings indicates that the selected retailers largely do have similar practices to verify sustainability of their supply chains. Among these practices, companies own operational principles and audits play a significant role in verifying supply chain sustainability. The observed practices were more reactive in nature, and the sustainability reports provided rather variable evidence of more proactive practices. However, companies utilizing GRI reporting disclosed more comprehensively and transparently proactive practices. The research findings also exposed that only two out of the four case companies have adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and integrated them into their sustainability reporting. This research studies the key practices adopted by Finnish retailers to ensure the sustainability of their supply chains and how these are ...
Sustainable supply chain management practices in retailing : Qualitative content analysis based on sustainability reports
2023-11-22
URN:NBN:fi-fe20231122148221
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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