Exploring the Locus of Social Sustainability Implementation …
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There is an inappropriate understanding of social sustainability issues leading
to ineffective solutions; the consequences of these failures are serious for worker
occupational health and safety. In order to sustain employee occupational health
and safety issues in the long run, the manufacturing firm needs to make effectively
incorporate sustainability issues into their supply chain management (Tseng and
Hung 2014). Since the last few years, interest in social sustainability issues in the
supply chain has attracted attention from the manufacturing firms, aspire to engage in
socially sustainable practices (Andersen and Skjoett-Larsen 2009; Mani et al. 2016a).
Social sustainability is an emerging research area which encompasses human health,
safety, social capital, social equity and comfort and required researcher attention
(Popovic and Kraslawski 2015). The social sustainability performance perspective
points out the potential importance of the buyer-supplier commitment to supply
chain relationship (Awan 2019). Still, the challenge in the developing countries is
to categorize a good number of persistent barriers impeding the implementation of
social sustainability practices (Mani et al. 2016b). The ever-increasing awareness on
social issues in the supplier-manufacturing firm in developing countries means that
there is a need to understand barriers that hinder for the implementation of social
practices.
Thus, it is imperative important to understand and identify the barriers which affect
the implementation of social sustainability practices. Social sustainability issues in
inherently connected with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), for example, SDG3 (good health and well-being), SDG5 (gender equality),
SDG8 (decent work and economic growth and SDG10 (reduce inequalities). This
gives manufacturing firms a distinct perspective in the context of SD goals. However,
there are several practical challenges for implementations. There exists a scarcity of
investigations on appropriate planning regarding a global partnership for achieving SDGs in the area of sustainable development. This paper provides an empirical
analysis of the many practices that implementing sustainable development goals
(SDGs), SDG3, SDG5 and SDG17 pose, and contributes to sustainable development. To address this research gap, we build on the analytical hierarchy process
(AHP), such that we model the factors that are most challenging in the implementation of social sustainability practices. The objective of the present study is (1)
to prioritize barriers hindering the effective implementation of social sustainability
practices. This study attempts to answer the research questions, what are the existing barriers to implement social sustainability practices in manufacturing firms in
emerging country perspective? In answering these questions, we particularly contribute to the field by identifying how social sustainability initiatives can be promoted
in the manufacturing firms. This study proposes a structural model for evaluating the
barriers associated with the implementation of social sustainability initiatives in a
supply chain. The proposed model can use as the roadmap to their implementation
of social sustainability initiatives. The findings of this study offer contribution to
social sustainability. This paper contributes to the increasing body of research on
how different barriers influences to implement social sustainability practices by (1)
taking a perspective on the developing country perspective, and (2) our findings add
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There is an inappropriate understanding of social sustainability issues leading
to ineffective solutions; the consequences of these failures are serious for worker
occupational health and safety. In order to sustain employee occupational health
and safety issues in the long run, the manufacturing firm needs to make effectively
incorporate sustainability issues into their supply chain management (Tseng and
Hung 2014). Since the last few years, interest in social sustainability issues in the
supply chain has attracted attention from the manufacturing firms, aspire to engage in
socially sustainable practices (Andersen and Skjoett-Larsen 2009; Mani et al. 2016a).
Social sustainability is an emerging research area which encompasses human health,
safety, social capital, social equity and comfort and required researcher attention
(Popovic and Kraslawski 2015). The social sustainability performance perspective
points out the potential importance of the buyer-supplier commitment to supply
chain relationship (Awan 2019). Still, the challenge in the developing countries is
to categorize a good number of persistent barriers impeding the implementation of
social sustainability practices (Mani et al. 2016b). The ever-increasing awareness on
social issues in the supplier-manufacturing firm in developing countries means that
there is a need to understand barriers that hinder for the implementation of social
practices.
Thus, it is imperative important to understand and identify the barriers which affect
the implementation of social sustainability practices. Social sustainability issues in
inherently connected with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), for example, SDG3 (good health and well-being), SDG5 (gender equality),
SDG8 (decent work and economic growth and SDG10 (reduce inequalities). This
gives manufacturing firms a distinct perspective in the context of SD goals. However,
there are several practical challenges for implementations. There exists a scarcity of
investigations on appropriate planning regarding a global partnership for achieving SDGs in the area of sustainable development. This paper provides an empirical
analysis of the many practices that implementing sustainable development goals
(SDGs), SDG3, SDG5 and SDG17 pose, and contributes to sustainable development. To address this research gap, we build on the analytical hierarchy process
(AHP), such that we model the factors that are most challenging in the implementation of social sustainability practices. The objective of the present study is (1)
to prioritize barriers hindering the effective implementation of social sustainability
practices. This study attempts to answer the research questions, what are the existing barriers to implement social sustainability practices in manufacturing firms in
emerging country perspective? In answering these questions, we particularly contribute to the field by identifying how social sustainability initiatives can be promoted
in the manufacturing firms. This study proposes a structural model for evaluating the
barriers associated with the implementation of social sustainability initiatives in a
supply chain. The proposed model can use as the roadmap to their implementation
of social sustainability initiatives. The findings of this study offer contribution to
social sustainability. This paper contributes to the increasing body of research on
how different barriers influences to implement social sustainability practices by (1)
taking a perspective on the developing country perspective, and (2) our findings add