Abstract
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the supply chain has become an increasingly popular research topic, but there are little researches on developing countries or emerging market economies as the research object, let alone providing a framework for assessing CSR in sustainable supply chains in the context of these countries. This paper will make up for these literature gaps. From the perspective of the green supply chain management, this paper integrates various authoritative standards and adopts two methods, “R clustering” and “variation coefficient analysis”, to establish a CSR performance evaluation system of China’s transportation industry. Applying the mean square error index weighting method analyzes the performance of 74 companies in China’s transportation industry in 2018 to verify the rationality of the evaluation system. The results find that this industry generally scores low and the performance of responsibilities of different sub-sectors in this industry is different, but the overall performance trend is improving. This research has implications for China’s transportation industry to improve CSR levels from the perspective of green supply chain management, for managers and stakeholders who are committed to improving China’s CSR green and sustainable development, and for the development of CSR in developing countries and emerging markets.
Highlights
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a topic of widespread concern in business and academic research
Since the 1990s, authoritative organizations around the world began to research and publish a relatively mature CSR performance evaluation system that was applied to the world
Despite the increasing focus on CSR in western developed economies in recent years, the awareness of CSR in Asia is quite low at both the company level and the state level [6], and China is Asia’s largest developing country and emerging market economy
Summary
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a topic of widespread concern in business and academic research. It is worth noting that with the deepening of CSR practice, international social responsibility has gradually shown the characteristics of standardization and rigid constraints. Since the 1990s, authoritative organizations around the world began to research and publish a relatively mature CSR performance evaluation system that was applied to the world. Standard Organization 26,000 Social Responsibility Guide (ISO26000) [4], Global Reporting Initiative Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (GRI4.0) [5]. Most of the western CSR performance evaluation studies take these mature CSR performance evaluation systems as the standard research framework. Compared with the current increasingly important international status, China’s attention and research on CSR are very limited, and the social responsibility awareness of Chinese companies is relatively low. This is because China’s main policy since the 1990s has been to vigorously develop the economy
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