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U. Awan et al.
across all industries. We believe this paper is of interest to practitioners and academicians who deals with social sustainability initiatives at manufacturing firms.
Keywords Social sustainability initiatives · Implementation · Supply chain
management · Barriers · Multiple-criteria decision-making
1 Introduction
There is a growing trend towards developing a more sustainable way of managing
social sustainability performance among the manufacturing firms. United Nations
SDGs transformation calls for a broad partnership and requires a magnitude of the
cooperation. The UNSDGs that set targets for 2030 seeks to promote sustainable
development includes global goals, such as good health and well being, gender equality and partnership for the goals (United Nations 2015). Social sustainability is one
pillar that links to two other pillars of sustainable development (SD) that is, economic
and environmental. To promote and meet the UNSD goals, it proposes adopting buyer
involvement, skill, and development for meaningful collaboration. The sustainable
development goals (SDGs) are a self-reliant dedication to accomplish, exactly what
we began and also combat a few of the more demanding challenges experiencing the
world today (ICSU 2015).
There is a growing interest towards developing a more sustainable way of managing social sustainability performance among the manufacturing firms. Supply chain
management practices have a detrimental impact on the environment, human health
and economic sustainability. There is a growing recognition of social sustainability issues among buyers and suppliers. Buyer-supplier relationship has become a
strategic means of achieving social performance for medium to large-sized firms.
Relational governance among supply chain partners impact on adaptive capabilities
for improvement in social sustainability (Awan 2019). Many manufacturing companies are sourcing their suppliers from developing countries for low cost advantage
(Mani et al. 2016a). The manufacturing firms are striving to satisfy sustainability
requirements (SRs) in their products (Biju et al. 2017). The results show that both
product and process innovations decreased waste generation, raw materials, energy
and water consumptions (Severo et al. 2017). Therefore, it is important for manufacturing industries to deal with various barriers associated with their customers,
employees, and management, to achieve social sustainability performance in a supply
chain scenario. It is also a timely study, some recent accidents in Pakistan, Ali Enterpriser factory, supplier for German-based low-cost retailer KiK collapsed, killing
254 workers. Thus, risk base production facilities may have an impact on firm sustainability and it may have some adverse effect on society. In order to achieve sustainability targets, manufacturing firms need to identify challenging initiatives and
implementation of environmentally friendly practices into their supply chain (Mani
et al. 2016b).
U. Awan et al.
across all industries. We believe this paper is of interest to practitioners and academicians who deals with social sustainability initiatives at manufacturing firms.
Keywords Social sustainability initiatives · Implementation · Supply chain
management · Barriers · Multiple-criteria decision-making
1 Introduction
There is a growing trend towards developing a more sustainable way of managing
social sustainability performance among the manufacturing firms. United Nations
SDGs transformation calls for a broad partnership and requires a magnitude of the
cooperation. The UNSDGs that set targets for 2030 seeks to promote sustainable
development includes global goals, such as good health and well being, gender equality and partnership for the goals (United Nations 2015). Social sustainability is one
pillar that links to two other pillars of sustainable development (SD) that is, economic
and environmental. To promote and meet the UNSD goals, it proposes adopting buyer
involvement, skill, and development for meaningful collaboration. The sustainable
development goals (SDGs) are a self-reliant dedication to accomplish, exactly what
we began and also combat a few of the more demanding challenges experiencing the
world today (ICSU 2015).
There is a growing interest towards developing a more sustainable way of managing social sustainability performance among the manufacturing firms. Supply chain
management practices have a detrimental impact on the environment, human health
and economic sustainability. There is a growing recognition of social sustainability issues among buyers and suppliers. Buyer-supplier relationship has become a
strategic means of achieving social performance for medium to large-sized firms.
Relational governance among supply chain partners impact on adaptive capabilities
for improvement in social sustainability (Awan 2019). Many manufacturing companies are sourcing their suppliers from developing countries for low cost advantage
(Mani et al. 2016a). The manufacturing firms are striving to satisfy sustainability
requirements (SRs) in their products (Biju et al. 2017). The results show that both
product and process innovations decreased waste generation, raw materials, energy
and water consumptions (Severo et al. 2017). Therefore, it is important for manufacturing industries to deal with various barriers associated with their customers,
employees, and management, to achieve social sustainability performance in a supply
chain scenario. It is also a timely study, some recent accidents in Pakistan, Ali Enterpriser factory, supplier for German-based low-cost retailer KiK collapsed, killing
254 workers. Thus, risk base production facilities may have an impact on firm sustainability and it may have some adverse effect on society. In order to achieve sustainability targets, manufacturing firms need to identify challenging initiatives and
implementation of environmentally friendly practices into their supply chain (Mani
et al. 2016b).