The purpose of this paper is to uncover how environmental and social sustainability practices are diffused across the supply chain tiers through supplier development initiatives. In particular, the work seeks to uncover the initiatives developed directly or indirectly by manufacturing firms and the factors that enhance them. A systematic literature review is used to examine the breadth of the sustainable supply chain literature. The papers obtained are screened and analysed using established procedures to produce bibliometric and thematic analyses. The findings show the evolution of this young field around key research groups with few papers looking beyond focal firms to immediate suppliers and even fewer examining multiple tiers. Whilst numerous organisational factors are identified, few works consider most of them together and none capture their interrelationships at such breadth. Within this field lacking in theory, the originality of the work is the assembly of environmental and social practices into an integrated framework for their diffusion across supply chain tiers in the design and implementation of supplier development initiatives. There is recognition of where in the supply chain these practices are applied. The implications of this research are a framework around which supply chain diffusion theory can be tested and subsequent potential for its deployment in business to guide sustainable practice adoption.

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供应链环境和社会可持续性实践传播：文献计量学、内容分析和概念框架

本文的目的是揭示环境和社会可持续性实践如何通过供应商发展计划在整个供应链层级中传播。特别是，这项工作旨在揭示制造企业直接或间接制定的举措以及增强这些举措的因素。系统的文献综述用于检查可持续供应链文献的广度。使用既定程序对获得的论文进行筛选和分析，以进行文献计量和专题分析。研究结果显示了这个年轻领域围绕关键研究小组的演变，很少有论文将焦点公司以外的目光投向直接供应商，而研究多层的论文更少。虽然确定了许多组织因素，很少有作品将它们中的大部分放在一起，也没有一部作品能如此广泛地捕捉到它们之间的相互关系。在这个缺乏理论的领域内，这项工作的独创性是将环境和社会实践整合到一个综合框架中，以便在供应商发展计划的设计和实施中将它们传播到供应链层级。人们已经认识到这些做法在供应链中的应用。这项研究的意义是一个框架，围绕该框架可以测试供应链扩散理论以及随后将其部署到业务中以指导可持续实践采用的潜力。这项工作的独创性是将环境和社会实践整合到一个综合框架中，以便在供应商发展计划的设计和实施中将其传播到整个供应链层级。人们已经认识到这些做法在供应链中的应用。这项研究的意义是一个框架，围绕该框架可以测试供应链扩散理论以及随后将其部署到业务中以指导可持续实践采用的潜力。这项工作的独创性是将环境和社会实践整合到一个综合框架中，以便在供应商发展计划的设计和实施中将其传播到整个供应链层级。人们已经认识到这些做法在供应链中的应用。这项研究的意义是一个框架，围绕该框架可以测试供应链扩散理论以及随后将其部署到业务中以指导可持续实践采用的潜力。