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).