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A Collaborative Framework for Governance Mechanism and Sustainability Performance in Supply Chain

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Dynamics in Logistics (LDIC 2018)

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The results indicate that socially sustainable development is two-fold:firstly, involves fostering interaction through relational governance and secondly, ensuring cohesion with cultural intelligence capability. We develop a theoretical framework and empirical research approach for understanding how cultural intelligence capabilities can be used to transform relational governance to improve social sustainability in an inter-firm exchange relationship. The analysis is based on cross-sectional base survey questionnaires on a sample of 239 senior managers from four manufacturer industries using partial least squares structural equation modelling approach. Sustainability performance framework is conceived on a foundation of the theoretical body of knowledge in the literature. This study contributes by identifying key cultural intelligence capabilities; management is more likely to work effectively with their cross-border supply chain partners. The dynamic capability theory helps explain how culturally intelligent individuals are able to dynamically adjust, protecting and adapt to the partner cultural in inter-organizational collaborations. Our results through structural equation modelling approach confirmed that collaborative relational governance is useful to improve the social sustainability performance.

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  1. LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Usama Awan, Andrzej Kraslawski & Janne Huiskonen

  2. Department of Process and Environmental Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Łódź, Poland

    Andrzej Kraslawski

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Awan, U., Kraslawski, A., Huiskonen, J. (2018). A Collaborative Framework for Governance Mechanism and Sustainability Performance in Supply Chain. In: Freitag, M., Kotzab, H., Pannek, J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74225-0_9

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