Handbook of Management Scales/Supplier-oriented CSR

Supplier-oriented corporate social responsibility (CSR) (alpha = 0.84)

Description

A multidimensional measure of corporate stakeholder responsibility (CStR) was developed and validated. Hereby, the authors conducted a series of analyses, including exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, and structural equation modeling to assess different types of validity of the proposed scale. The scale consists of six dimensions: community-oriented, natural environment-oriented, employee-oriented, supplier-oriented, customer-oriented, and shareholder-oriented CSR.

Definition

Corporate stakeholder responsibility (CStR) is defined as “an organization’s context-specific actions and policies designed to enhance the welfare of various stakeholder groups by accounting for the triple bottom line of economic, social, and environmental performance”.

Items

• Our company endeavors to ensure that all its suppliers (and subcontractors), wherever they may be, respect and apply current labor laws. (0.77)
• Our company makes sure that its suppliers (and subcontractors) respect justice rules in their own workplaces. (0.75)
• Our company cares that labor laws are applied by all its suppliers (and subcontractors) wherever they may be. (0.74)
• Our company would not continue to deal with a supplier (or subcontractor) who failed to respect labor laws. (0.73)
• Our company helps its suppliers (and subcontractors) to improve the working conditions of their own workers (e.g., safe working environment, etc.). (0.65)

Source

• El Akremi (201_): How Do Employees Perceive Corporate Responsibility? Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Corporate Stakeholder Responsibility Scale. Journal of Management, Vol. _, No. _, pp. _–_

Comments

Future research could further distinguish between direct suppliers (tier one) and indirect suppliers (tier two, subcontractors).