Dahlmann, Frederik and Röhrich, Jens K. (2019) Sustainable supply chain management and partner engagement to manage climate change information. Business Strategy and the Environment, 28 (8). pp. 1632-1647. doi:10.1002/bse.2392 ISSN 0964-4733.

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Abstract

Climate change poses significant new risks and challenges for businesses and their supply chains. Additionally, in many sectors scope 3 indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the sourcing and distribution of goods and services are larger than firms’ own carbon footprints. Here we study how firms engage their key stakeholders in their supply chains in obtaining, processing and transferring relevant climate change related information designed to overcome information asymmetry and drive sustainable development. Grounded in organisational information processing theory (OIPT), we draw on data from the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) Climate Change Supply Chain initiative for a qualitative content analysis of a large sample of global firms. Consistent with OIPT, we find that while firms primarily engage their supply chain partners in a variety of ways to reduce information uncertainty around indirect emissions data, effectively interpreting and managing broader sustainability information equivocality becomes a growing priority. Our findings further suggest that firms engage suppliers, customers and other supply chain partners through basic, transactional and collaborative types of engagement. We contribute to literatures on inter-organisational information processing and sustainable supply chain management by providing a more detailed understanding of how firms engage supply chain partners in the context of climate change.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce Q Science > QC Physics T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Climatic changes -- Economic aspects, Business logistics -- Environmental aspects, Greenhouse gases, Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects, Physical distribution of goods -- Management
Journal or Publication Title:	Business Strategy and the Environment
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
ISSN:	0964-4733
Official Date:	December 2019
Dates:	Date Event December 2019 Published 18 October 2019 Available 6 September 2019 Accepted
Volume:	28
Number:	8
Page Range:	pp. 1632-1647
DOI:	10.1002/bse.2392
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights):	This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dahlmann, F, Röhrich, JK. Sustainable supply chain management and partner engagement to manage climate change information. Bus Strat Env. 2019; 1– 16. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2392, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2392. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	22 October 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access:	18 October 2021

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