Abstract
Guiding core enterprises to participate in supply chain work safety governance is an innovative mode of work safety control, which has an important impact on improving the work safety level of small and medium-sized enterprises in the supply chain. Through in-depth interviews, the grounded theory is adopted to explore the driving factors of work safety management behaviors of core enterprise. It is found that the work safety management behavior of the core enterprise is driven by both internal and external factors. External driving factors are the main category of institutional pressure composed of regulatory pressure, normative pressure, and cognitive pressure. Internal driving factors are divided into the main category of behavioral awareness and the behavioral capability of the core enterprises. The behavioral awareness is composed of responsibility sense, problem cognition and behavioral effect perception. The behavioral capability is composed of safety management strength and safety coordination capability. Institutional pressure, behavioral awareness, and behavioral capability all influence the work safety management behavior of core enterprise in supply chain significantly, but with different ways and paths. On this basis, the driving mechanism model of the above three main categories on the work safety management behavior in core enterprise supply chain is explored. The research can provide targeted policy ideas and implementation paths for the government to formulate effective guiding policies to promote the work safety management behavior of core enterprise.
Highlights
There are serious supply chain work safety problems because of a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturing suppliers in the supply chain
This study shows that institutional pressure, behavioral awareness and behavioral capability have a significant impact on the core enterprise supply chain work safety management behavior
Institutional pressure is the external motivation for enterprises to adopt management behavior, and behavioral awareness and behavioral capability are the internal motivations
Summary
There are serious supply chain work safety problems because of a large number of small and medium-sized manufacturing suppliers in the supply chain. Small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises are suspended and shut down for work safety issues, which directly affects the supply of core enterprises in the supply chain. In order to prevent the risk of supply chain safety accidents and occupational disease injuries, core enterprises need to adopt work safety management behaviors for their suppliers. According to Seuring and Müller (2008), compared with small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, core enterprises are in the leading position of the supply chain, with more advanced work safety concepts, technologies and management tools, so they might have the ability and obligation to take more social responsibility to improve the safety performance of their suppliers. Due to the order-dependent nature of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises, they would value the safety standard requirements and safety management of the core enterprises, and adopt active work safety behavior. This paper is an important supplement to work safety management in supply chain, and it has great policy guidance significance to guide more core enterprises to implement safety management in supply chain effectively
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