Managing suppliers for social sustainability: A ‎systematic review of literature

As organizations could suffer financial and reputational damages due to their ‎suppliers’ misconduct, they seek different means to influence the social performance ‎of their suppliers. Implementing social sustainability in supply chains proves to be ‎challenging. Therefore, we ask how organizations manage their supplier relationships ‎to extend social sustainability to their suppliers. We perform a literature review and ‎analyze 65 sample articles. We find that the main theme in the literature is governance ‎mechanisms of assessment and collaboration. However, both approaches have ‎limitations and to overcome them, alternative and complementary approaches are ‎examined and proposed.‎