Carrots or Sticks? Improving Social and Environmental Compliance at Suppliers Through Incentives and Penalties

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1402-1413

  Porteous, Angharad H ^a   Rammohan, Sonali V ^b   Lee, Hau L ^b  

^a Nike   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

responsible supplier management; social and environmental responsibility; supplier incentives and penalties; supplier non compliances and violations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940958330     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12376     Document Type: Article

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