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2019 | Book

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Supply Chain Social Sustainability for Manufacturing

Measurement and Performance Outcomes from India

Authors: Dr. V. Mani, Catarina Delgado

Publisher: Springer Singapore

Book Series : India Studies in Business and Economics

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.
In the wake of emerging social issues in developing countries, research on social sustainability has gained importance for academics and practitioners alike. The three distinguishable social sustainability dimensions in manufacturing that emerge as a result of this research provide insights for supply chain managers and practitioners who might otherwise be unaware of what constitutes social sustainability. A better understanding allows supply chain managers to address these issues more appropriately to increase their supply chain competitiveness in the market.
The book presents a social sustainability scale that can be used by practitioners to measure supply chain social sustainability to benchmark their supply chains globally. The research also helps academicians to gain an understanding of the social issues related to the manufacturing supply chain, while the social measures developed serve as reference material for policy-makers and sustainability experts in emerging economies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction
Abstract
Sustainable manufacturing is gaining much attention among practitioners and academicians over a decade. This is because of many of today’s social and environmental issues are rooted in unsustainable forms of industrial and economic development that causes tremendous pressure on finite natural resources.
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Chapter 2. Review of Literature
Abstract
This chapter carries out a comprehensive review of the background literature pertaining to social sustainability and the ways in which social sustainability in the supply chain has been perceived and practised. The review will act as one of the vital prerequisites for conducting the structural research. A detailed review of the prior research in the related fields not only assists in identifying the research gaps, but also helps in formulating the hypotheses and identifying the independent and dependent variables related to them.
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Chapter 3. Research Design
Abstract
In the previous chapter, we have explored the literature pertaining to social sustainability and their importance to the supply chain. In addition, we have also explored the relationship between social sustainability and the supply chain performance. In order to achieve our research objectives, in this chapter, we discuss step by step research design for both qualitative and quantitative research in detail.
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Chapter 4. Results and Analysis
Abstract
In the previous chapter (Chap. 3), we have described the research methodology for qualitative and quantitative study. This chapter discusses the results of the qualitative and quantitative analysis. The first section of this chapter discusses the results of the qualitative analysis, and the second part of the chapter discusses the quantitative measures using various statistical tools. First, the results of exploratory factor analysis performed on social sustainability issues in the supply chain, followed by confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the psychometric properties of the factors. Further, this chapter discusses the results of second-order confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. In addition, this chapter also discusses the results of various statistical tests used for reliability and validity of the constructs considered for the study.
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Chapter 5. Discussion
Abstract
This chapter discusses the research outcomes that emerge after various statistical analyses carried out in the previous chapter, as well as the contribution it makes to the existing body of research in the field.
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Chapter 6. Conclusions, Limitations and Future Research
Abstract
In the supply chain literature, among all the dimensions of sustainability, social sustainability remains the least explored (Ashby et al., 2012; Seuring and Muller, 2008a, b). Especially, studies on social sustainability in the supply chain of the Indian manufacturing industry are scant.
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Metadata
Title
Supply Chain Social Sustainability for Manufacturing
Authors
Dr. V. Mani
Catarina Delgado
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-13-1241-0
Print ISBN
978-981-13-1240-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1241-0