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- Patel, Jayna J., et al.
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Early outcomes associated with use of the Zenith TX2 Dissection Endovascular Graft for the treatment of Stanford type B aortic dissection
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Vascular Surgery. - : Elsevier. - 0741-5214 .- 1097-6809. ; 74:2, s. 547-555
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: To evaluate short term outcomes related to the use of the Zenith TX2 Dissection Endovascular Graft (ZDEG) and the Zenith Dissection Bare stent (ZDES) for the treatment of Stanford type B aortic dissections. Methods: This retrospective multicenter case cohort study collated data from 10 European institutions for patients with both complicated and uncomplicated type B aortic dissection treated with ZDEG and ZDES between 2011 and 2018. The primary end point was mortality at 30 and 90 days. Secondary end points included complications related to TEVAR, such as, type Ia endoleak, stroke, paraparesis, paraplegia, and retrograde type A dissection (RTAD). Statistical analysis was carried out using the t test, or one-way analysis of variance and the chi(2) or Fisher exact tests. Results: We treated 120 patients (87 male; mean age, 62.7 +/- 12.2years) either in the acute 76 (63.3%), subacute 16 (13.3%), or chronic 28 (23.3%) phase. Seven patients (5.8%) died within 30 days after the index procedure and two (1.7%) between 30 and 90 days. There was one instance of postoperative RTAD in a patient treated for rupture. Stroke and paraplegia occurred in three (2.5%) and five (4.2%), patients, respectively. Eight patients (6.7%) had a type Ia endoleak in the perioperative period. There were no instances of paraplegia, no permanent dialysis, and no requirement for adjunctive superior mesenteric or celiac artery stenting in the 33 patients (27.5%) who were treated by concurrent placement of ZDES distal to the ZDEG. The length and distal oversizing of ZDEG components used was less in this group. Conclusions: The present series demonstrates a low (<1%) RTAD rate and favorable morbidity and mortality. The lower rate of paraplegia, dialysis, and visceral artery stenting in the cohort that had adjunctive use of ZDES is compelling and merits further assessment.
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- Enrico, Fontana, et al.
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Saving the World? How CSR Practitioners Live Their Calling by Constructing Different Types of Purpose in Three Occupational Stages
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 185, s. 741-766
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Much attention in the meaningful work literature has been devoted to calling as an orientation toward work characterized by a strong sense of purpose and a prosocial motivation beyond self-gain. Nonetheless, debate remains as to whether individuals change or maintain their calling, and especially whether they live their calling differently in different occupational stages. In this article, we respond to this conundrum through an analysis of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) occupation – substantiated by interviews with 57 CSR practitioners from Swedish international companies who are living their calling. We demonstrate that social/commercial tensions affect these CSR practitioners, fueled by a divide between their social aspirations and the commercial goals, and prompt them to respond in a way that impacts how they construct the purpose of their work. Subsequently, we induce three stages of the CSR occupation – early-, mid- and late-stage – and conceptualize three types of purpose in each stage – activistic, win-win and corporate purpose. By uncovering how and why CSR practitioners respond to social/commercial tensions and construct different types of purpose in each stage of the CSR occupation, we show that individuals can live the same calling in multiple ways. Hence, our article advances the meaningful work literature as well as studies of micro-CSR.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Contesting corporate responsibility in the Bangladesh garment industry : The local factory owner perspective
- 2024
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Ingår i: Human Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-282X .- 0018-7267.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the developing economy of Bangladesh, local factory owners in the garment industry have felt great pressure to improve factory safety, but the costs for those improvements are not shared by the global apparel firms that wield immense influence over them. Consequently, we examine whether multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs), as vehicles of corporate social responsibility (CSR), offer platforms for democratic oversight or merely serve as new arenas to exercise corporate power. Given their role in connecting global and local contexts and their history of safety incidents, local factory owners possess a unique perspective on the impact and contested nature of CSR in global supply chains. This article presents a qualitative study of MSIs in the Bangladesh garment industry, particularly after the Rana Plaza collapse. Through interviews with local factory owners and executive managers, we explore the reasons behind their opposition to CSR as exercised by global apparel firms, and the contestation of those practices by their local business association. Our findings lead us to conclude that garment industry MSIs are unlikely to be effective without labor procurement practices that harmonize global and local interests to mitigate the competitive pressures on local factory owners.
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- Fontana, Enrico
(författare)
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Corporate Social Responsibility as Stakeholder Engagement: Firm-NGO Collaboration in Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3958. ; 25:4, s. 327-338
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the process of stakeholder collaboration between firms and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden. Collaboration is increasing in importance for corporate social responsibility (CSR); however, the literature does not adequately address how firms and NGOs begin and advance their relationships. This paper focuses on one fashion retailer and four NGOs in Sweden, implementing a resource-based view to better understand CSR. These NGOs support the firm's CSR toward asylum applicants and low-income individuals. This study makes three contributions to the CSR literature. First, it finds that the firm and NGOs select each other based on their resources, but for different reasons. Second, it demonstrates that NGOs adjust to corporate demands, but whether this hampers mission integrity depends on the balance between current and future potential for resource acquisition. Finally, it shows the influence of the Swedish context on CSR, arguing that public opinion can be shifted through policy making.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Corporate social responsibility decisions in apparel supply chains: The role of negative emotions in Bangladesh and Pakistan
- 2021
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3966 .- 1535-3958. ; 28:6, s. 1700-1714
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article integrates the global value chain literature with the micro organization literature on negative emotions to explore the drivers of fear and anger among supplier factory senior managers in apparel supply chains after Rana Plaza—a major industrial disaster—and their influence on decisions on CSR practices. Based on a comparative study around Dhaka and Lahore—two key apparel manufacturing hubs—this study elucidates that supplier factory senior managers experienced similar market tensions but different social tensions after the Rana Plaza incident. Crucially, similar market tensions helped create market fear and anger, but different social tensions led to social fear and anger in Bangladesh but not in Pakistan, therefore influencing the way supplier factory senior managers take decisions regarding CSR practices. By conceptualizing communal alignment and competitive CSR, this research finally advances the global value chain literature and contributes to the current conversations on negative emotions in organizations.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Corporate social responsibility sensemaking : The change agency of executives in Bangladesh and CRS workers in Japan
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis is organised as follows. The next section presents a brief section on the ontological and epistemological nature of this thesis. This is followed by a literature review. This theoretical section is made up of one main section on sensemaking and another principal part specifically focusing on the sensemaking of CSR practices in organisations (CSR sensemaking). While doing so, it also highlights the literature on the CSR sensemaing of executives and CSR workers as middle managers. It subsequently explores the Bangladeshi and Japanese contexts, the central areas of the studies developed. Then the thesis sets out its methodology and the way data was collected and analysed in Bangladesh and Japan. The last section presents a summary of the articles and their findings, before spelling out its chief general contribution, implications for practice and limitations.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Creating Inclusion for Transwomen at Work Through Corporate Social Responsibility: The Contributions of Bandhu in Bangladesh
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Exploring Gender at Work :Multiple Perspectives. - London : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. - 9783030643195 - 9783030643188 ; , s. 385-406
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite their acknowledgement in 2013 as a separate gender and as they have been increasingly referred to as third gender, transwomen in Bangladesh continue to lack employment opportunities and remain among the most vulnerable segments of the population. This chapter puts the spotlight on the crucial contribution of Bandhu to creating transwomen inclusion. Founded in 1996 in Dhaka, Bandhu is a human rights and non-governmental organization whose mission lies in the provision of services for sexual and reproductive health and rights while also ensuring the well-being of the gender diverse population of Bangladesh. This chapter specifically unpacks Bandhu’s contribution by analyzing its leading and implementing function in a corporate social responsibility (CSR) project for transwomen inclusion through the lived experiences of Shima and Dilruba. They are the first two transwomen involved in the CSR project and its primary beneficiaries. By particularly stressing the challenges of Shima and Dilruba after finding employment and Bandhu’s approach to navigate these challenges, this chapter represents an important learning tool for industry practitioners, government professionals, activists, and educators who are interested in human rights and in understanding how to better create inclusion for transwomen at work in South Asia.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Cross-sector collaboration and nonprofit boundary work for female workers in developing countries: evidence from Bangladesh
- 2021
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Ingår i: Sustainability Accounting, Management And Policy Journal. - : Emerald Publishing. - 2040-803X .- 2040-8021. ; 12:6, s. 1178-1207
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the way the cross-sector collaboration (CSC) process can foster gender-focused sustainability initiatives to improve female workers' conditions in developing countries. The study does so by introducing and examining the influence of nonprofit boundary work during the CSC process.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on thirty-four interviews and qualitative fieldwork. It draws on a case analysis of a regional CSC between multiple organizations operating locally in the apparel industry of Bangladesh, a developing country.FindingsScaffolding work in the CSC formation stage - performed by development agency implementers who construe boundaries - and sensitization work in the CSC implementation stage - performed by a non-governmental organization (NGO) implementers who blur and expand boundaries - emerge as two conceptual categories of nonprofit boundary work. This allows NGO implementers to identify and enable the agency of sustainability envoys or socially privileged individuals who capitalize on their social credentials to support female workers in the factory and in the community.Originality/valueThe study offers novel insights into the CSC process. It contributes to the CSC literature and the literature on boundary work, with a focus on gender-focused sustainability initiatives for female workers in developing countries.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Implementing social sustainability through market pressures: an inter-organizational network analysis in the Pakistani apparel supply chain
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. - : Emerald. - 1758-664X .- 0960-0035. ; 53:1, s. 156-180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose This article encourages novel approaches in the SSCM literature to create transformative change for workers in developing countries' apparel supply chains. It examines how suppliers' implementation of social sustainability is moderated by buyers' pressures (through dyadic ties) and by similar suppliers' pressures (through extended ties). Design/methodology/approach The article adopts a qualitative method design based on fieldwork and 21 face-to-face interviews with suppliers' senior managers. The data were collected between 2017 and 2020 in the factory premises of suppliers in Pakistan. Findings This article distinguishes the pressures that moderate suppliers' implementation of social sustainability positively (top-down encouragement, informal exchange and competitive convergence) and negatively (unrewarded commitment) through social ties. Hence, it shows how suppliers experience constrained proactivity as a state of tension. Originality/value The article primarily contributes to the SSCM literature by informing how similar suppliers' pressures in the business community constitute important processes of social governance and are key to create transformative change upstream in apparel supply chains. Against this backdrop, it cautions about buyers' opposite pressures and misuse of their negotiation power, which indirectly holds back and dilutes transformative change.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Managing diversity through transgender inclusion in developing countries: A collaborative corporate social responsibility initiative from Bangladesh
- 2020
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Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3966 .- 1535-3958. ; 27:6, s. 2548-2562
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While drawing on a collaborative corporate social responsibility initiative to manage diversity, this article investigates the main drivers of discrimination and the ways to reduce discrimination affecting transgenders in organizations in Bangladesh, a developing country. Often part of the "Hijra" community, transgenders in Bangladesh were acknowledged by the government in 2013 as third gender individuals but remain the most excluded of the excluded and struggle to retain jobs. This research finds that Bangladeshi transgenders at work suffer from internal intimidation because of the gurus or leaders in the community and also from direct and indirect workplace harassment from other workers. Subsequently, it offers a typology of collaborative practices to facilitate inclusion based on persuasion and dialog with gurus, the police, imams, and workers. Finally, this article contributes to the nascent literature on diversity management through transgender inclusion as well as the literature on transgenders and the Hijra community in Bangladesh.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Nominated procurement and the indirect control of nominated sub-suppliers: Evidence from the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Research. - : Elsevier BV. - 0148-2963 .- 1873-7978. ; 127, s. 179-192
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes and discusses nominated procurement as a means through which buyers select sub-suppliers to achieve sustainability compliance upstream in emerging economies' supply chains. Hence, it critically examines the ways buyers articulate nominated procurement and the unfolding supply chain consequences. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork in the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain, the findings indicate that buyers accomplish sustainability compliance among their sub-suppliers while prioritizing their own business agenda. In doing so, however, buyers perpetuate “suboptimal compliance” of raw material suppliers and “sandwiching” of direct suppliers as harmful consequences on the supply chain. These consequences link theoretically with commercial, geographical, compliance and extended-compliance pressure. This article contributes to the advancement of the Sustainable Supply Chain Management literature by theorizing about nominated procurement, direct and indirect pressure, and pointing to the supply chain consequences beyond achievements in sustainability compliance.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Non Sibi, Sed Omnibus: Influence of Supplier Collective Behaviour on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544 .- 1573-0697. ; 159:4, s. 1047-1064
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local supplier corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries represents a powerful tool to improve labour conditions. This paper pursues an inter-organizational network approach to the global value chain (GVC) literature to understand the influence of suppliers’ collective behaviour on their CSR engagement. This exploratory study of 30 export-oriented and first-tier apparel suppliers in Bangladesh, a developing country, makes three relevant contributions to GVC scholarship. First, we show that suppliers are interlinked in a horizontal network that restricts unilateral CSR engagement. This is justified in that unilateral CSR engagement is a source of heterogeneity in labour practices; consequently, it triggers worker unrest. Second, we present and discuss an exploratory framework based on four scenarios of how suppliers currently engage in CSR given their network’s pressure toward collective behaviour: unofficial CSR engagement, geographic isolation, size and competitive differentiation, and external pressure. Finally, we show the need to spread CSR homogeneously among suppliers and to reconceptualize the meaning of CSR in developing countries, encouraging more scrutiny toward horizontal dynamics.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Non Sibi, Sed Omnibus: Influence of Supplier Collective Behaviour on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain : Influence of Supplier Collective Behaviour on Corporate social Responsibility in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Business Ethics. - : Springer Verlag (Germany). - 1573-0697 .- 0167-4544. ; 159:4, s. 1047-1064
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Local supplier corporate social responsibility (CSR) in developing countries represents a powerful tool to improve labour conditions. This paper pursues an inter-organizational network approach to the global value chain (GVC) literature to understand the influence of suppliers' collective behaviour on their CSR engagement. This exploratory study of 30 export-oriented and first-tier apparel suppliers in Bangladesh, a developing country, makes three relevant contributions to GVC scholarship. First, we show that suppliers are interlinked in a horizontal network that restricts unilateral CSR engagement. This is justified in that unilateral CSR engagement is a source of heterogeneity in labour practices; consequently, it triggers worker unrest. Second, we present and discuss an exploratory framework based on four scenarios of how suppliers currently engage in CSR given their network's pressure toward collective behaviour: unofficial CSR engagement, geographic isolation, size and competitive differentiation, and external pressure. Finally, we show the need to spread CSR homogeneously among suppliers and to reconceptualize the meaning of CSR in developing countries, encouraging more scrutiny toward horizontal dynamics.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Pressures for sub‐supplier sustainability compliance : The importance of target markets in textile and garment supply chains
- 2024
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Ingår i: Business Strategy and the Environment. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1099-0836 .- 0964-4733.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose that sub‐supplier sustainability compliance in developing economies' textile and garment supply chains can be more effectively realized by understanding sub‐suppliers' target markets. We introduce the concept of sub‐suppliers' customer share of production as the share of production that sub‐suppliers sell to “exporting” direct suppliers that cater to the international market vis‐à‐vis “local” direct suppliers that cater to the domestic market. Through this concept and qualitative evidence, we offer a model outlining that as sub‐suppliers sell more to exporting direct suppliers, they encounter increased coercive, competitive, and collaborative pressures for sustainability compliance. This article contributes to the multi‐tier sustainable supply chain management literature by illustrating how target markets exert pressures for sub‐supplier sustainability compliance, and why some sub‐suppliers are more inclined to invest in sustainability compliance, some decouple from it, and others invest beyond compliance. We conclude with business strategy guidelines for managers in textile and garment supply chains.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Social Sustainability from Upstream: Important Takeaways from DBL Group’s People Programmes in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain
- 2020. - 1
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Ingår i: Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II, Circular Economy and Beyond. - Cham. : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030552855 - 9783030552848 ; 2, s. 281-302
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the increasing attention of Global Value Chain (GVC) scholars towards multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) for social sustainability, international buyers such as apparel retailers (buyers) keep being referred to as ‘lead’ change agents. In this chapter, I problematize this inherent notion of buyers’ change agency in GVC literature, arguing for the need to understand more deeply the contribution of developing countries’ manufacturers to MSIs and their ability to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from upstream. I do so by conveying a powerful analysis of DBL Group (DBL), one of the most socially proactive manufacturers operating in the Bangladeshi apparel supply chain. By drawing closely on DBL’s approach in articulating its People programmes for social sustainability, this chapter helps conceptualize a three-step governance process based on: (1) learning, (2) integrating and (3) scaling. This process informs how developing countries’ manufacturers can participate with MSIs to lead and diffuse social sustainability programmes in the chain, ultimately helping achieve the SDGs. The chapter concludes with a main discussion on the implications of buyers’ change agency assumed in GVC literature. In so doing, it conveys five distinct takeaways of theoretical and practical import.
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- Fontana, Enrico
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Strategic CSR: a panacea for profit and altruism?: An empirical study among executives in the Bangladeshi RMG supply chain
- 2017
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Ingår i: European Business Review. - : Emerald. - 0955-534X. ; 29:3, s. 304-319
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: This e-book sheds light on the concept of strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) in supply chains within a developing country context. This paper aims to investigate cognitive antecedents as well as behavioral consequences of corporate executives toward investing in strategic CSR. Moreover, it displays if and how strategic CSR contributes to creating performance benefits for the supplier. Design/methodology/approach: This study is qualitative and exploratory in its nature. After drafting a five-dimensional framework from extant literature, it empirically elaborates on a case-study analysis based on primary data gathered through semi-structured interviews on ten executives (i.e. top executives, directors, owners) in large-size supplier companies within the Bangladeshi ready-made garment (RMG) supply chain. Findings: First, it highlights altruism and performance as being cognitively and theoretically espoused in strategic CSR; yet, one appears to oust the other. Second, it demonstrates that if CSR-driven investments allow for a competitive positional betterment, as for suppliers in the Bangladeshi RMG industry, profit-driven CSR diffuses at the expense of altruism. Third, it confirms CSR’s strategic role as necessary but not sufficient for competitive advantage, delivering insights on suppliers’ future posture vis-à-vis CSR in the Bangladeshi RMG supply chains. Research limitations/implications: The e-book investigates strategic CSR’s struggle to maintain a balance between moral and profit-maximization motives at the cognitive level but being paradoxically required in supply chains. A limitation, inter alia, entails the focus on the horizontal perspective of the sample and the RMG supply chain. Originality/value: The e-book provides valuable theoretical and practical insights by capitalizing on unique data retrieved from the Bangladeshi supply chain.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Tensions in the strategic integration of corporate sustainability through global standards: Evidence from Japan and South Korea
- 2022
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Ingår i: Business Strategy and the Environment. - : Wiley. - 1099-0836 .- 0964-4733. ; 31:3, s. 875-891
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the importance of the conflicting dimensions of corporate sustainability for business strategy, little is known about the tensions that derive from adopting global environmental and social standards in East Asia. Through 65 in-depth interviews conducted in Tokyo and Seoul, this article examines the tensions-and reactions to these tensions-of corporate sustainability managers tasked with the implementation of such standards in Japanese and South Korean multinational corporations. These represent key contexts of inquiry because of their normative tradition of corporate sustainability and geographical closeness. While elucidating that corporate sustainability managers in both countries encounter societal-commercial, traditional-modern, and individual-collective tensions, the article describes the ways they react differently to these tensions. This article contributes to the literature on corporate sustainability and tensions and the contextual literature on corporate sustainability in Japan and South Korea, ultimately offering takeaways for the strategic planning of multinational corporations.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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The Direct and Indirect Control of Sub-Suppliers Through Nominated Procurement in Emerging Markets
- 2020
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol 2020, No 1. - Academy of Management : Academy of Management. ; 2020:1, s. 18348-
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Little is known in the Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) literature about whether and to what extent international customers (ICs) are able to control sustainability compliance (compliance) upstream in their supply chain. By drawing on the notion of direct and indirect control in business networks and qualitative fieldwork in the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain, this paper examines how ICs control nominated and second-tier sub-suppliers (nominated sub- suppliers) to manage compliance, as well as the implications for their first-tier (direct) suppliers. By unveiling the way ICs exert direct coercive control and indirect normative control on nominated sub-suppliers, our paper provides theorizing of nominated procurement and its effects expected to create valid or validatable insights for emerging markets. Crucially, our paper provides a tangible example of how the indirect control may be stronger than the direct one, yet have consequences for both direct suppliers, sub-suppliers but also raw material suppliers. Reactive patterns as expected in any network would be hampered by this indirect control, while creating ingredients of distrust with suppliers."
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Understanding the importance of farmer–NGO collaboration for sustainability and business strategy: Evidence from the coffee supply chain
- 2023
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Ingår i: Business Strategy and the Environment. - : Wiley. - 1099-0836 .- 0964-4733. ; 32:6, s. 2715-2735
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the attention to governance strategies based on international market intervention and product differentiation, research on how farmers and NGOs collaborate and share knowledge in production countries to help address sustainability challenges bottom-up remains limited. Through evidence from the coffee supply chain, this article endorses a human ecology viewpoint and shows how farmer–NGO collaboration in domestic markets can help foster relevant environmental, social, and economic upgrades. More significantly, it provides evidence of the importance of farmer–NGO collaboration for business strategy and indicates how NGOs can help farmers to grow as independent business owners and build their own market channels locally. By conceptualizing a strategic framework of farmer–NGO collaboration to better overcome sustainability challenges bottom-up and empower farmers as independent business owners, while also outlining the possible unintended consequences of such collaboration, this article finally contributes to the literature on the coffee supply chain and offers generalizable takeaways for NGO strategy. © 2022 The Authors. Business Strategy and The Environment published by ERP Environment and John WileyXX1Sons Ltd.
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- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
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Understanding transgender persons' careers to advance sustainable development : The case of Trans for Career Thailand
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sustainable Development. - : Wiley. - 1099-1719 .- 0968-0802. ; 30:6, s. 1573-1590
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Careers are fundamental in progressing gender and income equality as key objectives of sustainable development. However, transgender persons often face unique challenges that prevent them from advancing in the world of work. This article elaborates upon the case of "Trans for Career Thailand," an advocacy group established during the COVID-19 pandemic with the purpose of offering career and employment opportunities to all transgender persons. Through primary and secondary data, the findings elucidate how "Trans for Career Thailand" uses its social media presence to build career knowledge, a community of career professionals and, finally, a trans career movement. This article shines a spotlight on the careers of transgender persons as a point of departure for advancing gender and income equality. Hence, it contributes to career development literature while offering important recommendations for sustainable development, employment policies, and advocacy groups.
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- Frandsen, Sanne, et al.
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How CSR Practitioners reformulate their calling through social-symbolic work practices over time
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Calling has gained importance in the career and organization scholarship as a key concept to better explain the meaningfulness of work from a humanistic perspective. On the contrary, much debate remains about the ways a calling–and the meaningfulness intertwined with it–can transform over time. To respond to this problem in the literature, we investigate the calling of corporate social responsibility (CSR), thereby offering an analysis of sixty-six interviews with fifty-seven CSR practitioners working in Swedish international companies. Our paper indicates that the social-commercial tensions affecting CSR practitioners, exacerbated by the schism between their social aspirations and the commercial goals embedded in their work, prompt them to engage with social-symbolic work practices that have a bearing on the meaningfulness they assign to their CSR calling over time. As a result, we theorize three predominant sources of meaningfulness that CSR practitioners ascribe to their CSR calling–activistic purpose, win-win purpose and corporate purpose–and outline that CSR practitioners continuously reconstruct them as they engage with social-symbolic work practices throughout their early, mid and late career stage. Our article sheds new light on the existence of discrepant sources of meaningfulness behind a calling, specifying that these sources change depending on career stages. In so doing, it contributes to the career and organization scholarship as well as the literature on the professionalization of CSR.
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