The COVID-19 outbreak has magnified the global poverty problem. The socially responsible supply chains plays an important role in poverty alleviation. The leading model of socially responsible agricultural supply chain in China, contract farming, is selected as the subject of investigation....

Managing sourcing relationships is a real-world problem for supply chain managers nowadays. The study focuses on how socially sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices (i.e., assessment and collaboration) can be vehicles to encourage suppliers to act responsibly and tackle their...

Social enterprises and government share the ultimate goal of solving societal problems, which provides a lot of potential for collaboration between the two parties. While the local government level is the most relevant for social enterprises, little research has been done on the relationship...