University of Granada, Spain

Alignment of environmental policies between buyers and suppliers of international supply chains: a resource dependence perspective

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Abstract

Previous literature has showed the positive implications of strategic alignment inside of a supply chain, but the analysis of the factors influencing the alignment is relatively scarce. Alignment is defined as the consistency between strategies, in this case, the environmental policies. Drawing from resource dependence theory, this study examines how dependence and inter-organizational governance mechanisms influence the buyer and suppliers align of their environmental policies and the moderating role of the environmental distance between the countries of the involved firms. Our sample includes 117 pairs of international firms, including a buyer in the energy industry and the main supplier of each one. Our results show that the mechanism to reduce dependence in these relationships and a high environmental formal distance between countries increase the alignment of the environmental policies. Our results have important implications for practitioners and future research.

Biography

Alejandro Ortiz-Pérez is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Organization at University of Granada (Spain). His expertise is related with the analysis of environmental strategies in the supply chain. He has not relevant publications in this moment, but he is working in some papers related with the effect of dependence and environmental formal distance in the environmental strategies within the supply chain. He has been awarded with a full grant from the Spanish Education Ministry to develop his thesis and he has been hired by the University of Granada as a researcher.

Alejandro holds a degree in Business Administration and a mastership in Economy and Business Organization. Before being a researcher, he has worked for the Spanish National Bank and the Spanish Tax Agency. He has also worked as a tax consultant.