Abstract
Abstract A general preoccupation of many local companies is to design and implement sustainable strategies. In this context, managers are seeking to identify the potential of different factors to facilitate the effective integration of sustainability into their business practices. In the present paper, we clarify the sustainable purchasing concept and we analyse this activity run within several corporations from the local banking field, IT&C and pharma. The literature review served as a basis for an empirical investigation among local large organizations. The methods used were in-depth bibliographic documentation, companies’ analysis and semi-structured interviews performed with purchasing heads. The result of the research confirms the important role of the purchasing activity and shows us how this field can contribute to a sustainable development of business. Despite the general interest and the motivation to use sustainable principles, effective incorporation of sustainable purchasing principles into business practices may encounter some obstacles, raising the need for more research.
Highlights
IntroductionThe development of a business relies, among other factors, on the way that the products and services supplied for the company bring the best quality downwards, to the company’s customers
The purchasing plays an increasingly important role in the company’s activity
The organizations we investigated used different mechanisms for communication: employees acting as disseminators of sustainable purchasing principles; campaigns to promote socially responsible actions, such as implementation of waste recycling in the company and reduction of the use of paper or disposable materials; new partnerships concluded with external stakeholders in order to promote sustainability campaigns, all the organization employees attending this kind of information within their internal newspaper, etc
Summary
The development of a business relies, among other factors, on the way that the products and services supplied for the company bring the best quality downwards, to the company’s customers. The business strategy tends to include the triple bottom line concept, the sustainable development being revealed under three dimensions: environmental, economic and social (Dyllick and Hockerts, 2002). We intend to mention few explanations for which we should act considering the sustainable purchasing within the development of the business, even when there might be barriers to doing this. Managers might have their own ethical and moral aspirations in running their companies. Apart from this, there are potential tangible motivations to use sustainability approaches in developing their business
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