...Meng Jia; Mark Stevenson; Miriam Wilhelm; Linda Caroline Hendry Purpose To understand how sustainability-oriented supplier development (SSD) can be translated from a small-scale pilot project into a large-scale implementation across the supply base. Design/methodology/approach The research...

...-use rights only To study the learning processes and mechanisms involved in sustainability-oriented supplier development (SSD), including how knowledge is transmitted by the buyer and how it is received, understood and internalised by the supplier. An exploratory longitudinal multi-case...

...Meng Jia; Mark Stevenson; Linda Caroline Hendry Purpose This study aims to study how first-tier suppliers (FTs) operate as boundary-spanners between the focal firm and second-tier suppliers (STs) in extending sustainability-oriented supplier development (SSD) initiatives up the supply chain...