Exploring the Dynamics of Supplier Dependence and Buyer-Supplier Trust on Social Sustainability Implementation in Garment Supply Chains: A Resource Dependency and Relational View Analysis

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2024-07-01
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Several disasters in the garment industry highlight the need for enhanced social sustainability implementation in global supply chains. This research investigates how buyers in the garment industry can use the captive governance structure with high supplier dependency to influence the supplier’s substantive social sustainability implementation. Analyzing data from 423 garment suppliers across 18 emerging countries, which supply to 16 different Western European or North American buyers, the results indicate that supplier dependence positively influences supplier’s substantive social sustainability implementation. In addition, this research finds that buyer-supplier trust negatively moderates the relationship between supplier dependence and substantive social sustainability implementation. Only low or moderate trust enhances this relationship, while high levels of trust show insignificant results. This research contributes to existing literature by providing more understanding on how supplier dependence impacts social sustainability and offers insights into how relational factors influence supplier’s substantive social sustainability implementation within captive supply chains. The findings provide managerial implications for promoting social sustainability in global supply chains.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen