Chapter 10 Sustainable Purchasing in an International Context A relational perspective
DOI: 10.23912/9781915097880-5981 | ISBN: 9781915097880 |
Published: April 2025 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: Sustainable Value Creation in Hospitality 2nd edition | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781915097880-5937 |
Abstract
Sustainable value creation depends not only on the internal organisation of businesses, but also on their relations with others in the wider international supply chain. With increasing levels of outsourcing, businesses are now only as sustainable as their suppliers (Sönnichsen & Clement, 2020). This is recognized within the manufacturing industry and is equally true for service-oriented industries like hospitality and tourism. Integrating sustainability into purchasing and supply management has long received limited attention from hospitality and tourism stakeholders, however (Galeazzo et al., 2021). The academic literature also reflects this, with little focus on achieving sustainable development within purchasing and supply chain management in the hospitality industry Some even argue that “there is a clear dearth in existing research” (Al-Aomar & Hussain, 2017: 42; Gruchmann et al., 2022).
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- Ko Koens, Inholland University of Applied Sciences (Author) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2803-0098
- Harry Reinders, Breda University of Applied Sciences (Author)
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- Elena Cavagnaro, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences (Editor) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5347-2509
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Koens, K. & Reinders, H. (2025) "Chapter 10 Sustainable Purchasing in an International Context A relational perspective" In: Cavagnaro, E. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781915097880-5981
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