The Moderating Role of Strategic Integration in Performance Improvement Through Purchasing Social Responsibility in Thailand

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1489
• Published date: 01 June 2019
• Author: Chompunoot Duangjan,Haijun Wang
• Date: 01 June 2019

The Moderating Role of Strategic Integration in

Performance Improvement Through Purchasing

Social Responsibility in Thailand

Chompunoot Duangjan

School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and

Technology

Haijun Wang*

School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and

Technology

Abstract

This research aims to understand the performance of

purchasing social responsibility (PSR) through moderating

effect of purchasing strategic integration. The results show

that PSR directly inf‌luences purchasing performance, while

the relationship between PSR and purchasing performance

is partially mediated by organizational learning. Moreover,

strategic integration negatively moderates the relationship

between PSR and purchasing performance. This study sug-

gests that the adoption of PSR affects the operations of both

buyers and suppliers in a supply chain that further encour-

age organizational learning and increases purchasing

eff‌iciency. The results also show that organizations may

realize this effect of PSR practices but may focus on other

purchasing practices, which affects purchasing perfor-

mance. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley

& Sons, Ltd.

Keywords: sustainability, purchasing social responsibility,

strategic integration, organizational learning, structural

equation modelling

Résumé

Cette recherche a pour but de chercher à comprendre la

performance de la responsabilité sociale des achats (PSR)

en modérant l’effet de l’intégration stratégique des achats.

Les résultats montrent que la PSR inf‌lue directement sur le

rendement des achats, tandis que la relation entre la PSR

et le rendement des achats est en partie inf‌luencée par

l’apprentissage organisationnel. De plus, l’intégration

stratégique modère négativement la relation entre le PSR

et la performance des achats. Les auteurs montrent que,

dans une chaîne d’approvisionnement qui favorise

davantage l’apprentissage organisationnel, l’adoption de

la PSR inf‌luence les activités des acheteurs et des

fournisseurs et accroît l’eff‌icacité des achats. Les résultats

révèlent également que bien que les organisations puissent

se rendre compte de cet effet des pratiques de la PSR, elles

se concentrent sur d’autres pratiques d’achat, ce qui a une

incidence sur le rendement des achats. Copyright © 2018

ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Mots-clés: durabilité, responsabilité sociale des achats,

intégration stratégique, apprentissage organisationnel,

modélisation des équations structurelles.

Introduction

Globalization and outsourcing, along with capability-

driven supply management and emphasis on innovation,

have gained unprecedented importance in recent times and

have led to a heightened dependence on the supplier

(Schoenherr et al., 2012). Another effect of globalization is

that organizations now need to go beyond their own internal

environmental and social aspects and must consider the

entire supplier chain, since it has been demonstrated that

suppliers’performance inf‌luences and affects the buyer’s

performance (Bacallan, 2000). In the contemporary world,

environmental and social factors and their effects require

organizations to be more considerate (Gończ, Skirke,

Kleizen, & Barber, 2007; Sikdar, 2003). Mattel, a Chinese

toy manufacturer, had to pay large sums of money for

millions of products that were returned because of being

contaminated with lead. Nike encountered many problems

because of employing child labour in China and Indonesia.

Events like these are why a company’s sustainability de-

pends heavily on its purchasing and supply management

function in implementing the sustainable supply chain

The research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of

China (NSFC) under Contract NO. 71372135, 71472069 and 71620107002.

*Please address correspondence to: Haijun Wang, Professor, School of

Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,

430074, China. E-mail: h.wang@hust.edu.cn

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences

Revue canadienne des sciences de l’administration

36: 248–259 (2019)

Published online 15 April 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/CJAS.1489

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