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Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 51-64 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2010 |
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Keywords
- corporate responsibility
- biodiversity
- business
- supply chain management
- SCM
- EMS
- environmental management systems
- risk
- opportunity
- sustainable procurement
- corporate social responsibility
- CSR.
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Corporate responsibility reporting of biodiversity in the supply chain. / Whatling, Derek R.; Hedges, Peter D.; Brown, Ross; Fermor, Philip.
In: International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, 08.2010, p. 51-64.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Corporate responsibility reporting of biodiversity in the supply chain
AU - Whatling, Derek R.
AU - Hedges, Peter D.
AU - Brown, Ross
AU - Fermor, Philip
PY - 2010/8
Y1 - 2010/8
N2 - Industrial development, accompanying human population growth, has had a major role in creating the situation where bio-diverse materials and services essential for sustaining business are under threat. A major contributory factor to biodiversity decline comes from the cumulative impacts of extended supply chain business operations. However, within Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting impacts on biodiversity due to supply chain operations have not traditionally been given equal weighting with other environmental issues. This paper investigates the extent of CR reporting in managing and publicising company biodiversity supply chain issues by reviewing a cross-sector sample of publicly available CR reports. The report contents were examined for suggestions of industrial sectorial trends in the level of biodiversity consideration. The reporting of environmental management system use within company supply chain management is assessed in the samples and is considered as a mechanism for responsible supplier partnership working.
AB - Industrial development, accompanying human population growth, has had a major role in creating the situation where bio-diverse materials and services essential for sustaining business are under threat. A major contributory factor to biodiversity decline comes from the cumulative impacts of extended supply chain business operations. However, within Corporate Responsibility (CR) reporting impacts on biodiversity due to supply chain operations have not traditionally been given equal weighting with other environmental issues. This paper investigates the extent of CR reporting in managing and publicising company biodiversity supply chain issues by reviewing a cross-sector sample of publicly available CR reports. The report contents were examined for suggestions of industrial sectorial trends in the level of biodiversity consideration. The reporting of environmental management system use within company supply chain management is assessed in the samples and is considered as a mechanism for responsible supplier partnership working.
KW - corporate responsibility
KW - biodiversity
KW - business
KW - supply chain management
KW - SCM
KW - EMS
KW - environmental management systems
KW - risk
KW - opportunity
KW - sustainable procurement
KW - corporate social responsibility
KW - CSR.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77955461878&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJISD.2010.034557
DO - 10.1504/IJISD.2010.034557
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 51
EP - 64
JO - International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
JF - International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
SN - 1740-8822
IS - 1
ER -