22Apr 2017

AN INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SUPPLY CHAIN

  • AbdelmalekEssa?di University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques ,Tangier, Morocco.
  • Laboratory of materials and resources valorization.
  • AbdelmalekEssa?di University, National School of Applied Sciences,Tangier, Morocco.
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Despite the fact that the concept of sustainable development originally included a clear social mandate, since a long time this social dimension has been neglected amidst abbreviated references to sustainability that have focused on economic and environmental issues.Now, social performance is a hot topic for researchers in management science. It is also one of the major concerns of supply chain leaders. To assess this performance, there are increasingly many management tools. It is then appropriate to wonder the role of these tools in supply chain: are these tools meet real organizational needs? Or they are used to promote supply chain image face institutional constraints increasingly strong? In this context, many modules and methodologies have been established in literature in order to evaluate social performance of supply chain, since it has become an important issue for society. However, few of them analyze social impacts. So, this work presents an integrated methodology to perform this evaluation, based on issues which significantly affect the society. We purpose a module which will allow the assessment of this performance. This module was tested in an automotive supply chain in north of Morocco.


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[A. Haddach, M. Ammari, L. Ben Allal, L. Chra?bi and A. Laglaoui. (2017); AN INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY TO ASSESS SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OF SUPPLY CHAIN Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Apr). 123-136] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


HADDACH Abdelhay
Abdelmalek Essaâdi University, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques ,Tangier, Morocco - Laboratory of materials and resources valorization

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3788      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3788