by adapting a framework previously presented by Carter & Rogers (2008). In Section 5, the use of theoretical lenses in SRS research is discussed before the paper concludes with Section 6. 2. Method The systematic literature review methodology, as described by authors such as Tranfield et al. (2003) and Denyer & Tranfield (2009) has been used to construct a database of articles, which were evaluated in order to provide insight into our research questions. This systematic process of reviewing literature increases rigour by promoting replicability and reliability and by decreasing bias (); but more importantly it makes the process transparent (). In the following section we discuss the different stages that were followed while conducting the systematic literature review, as summarised in Figure 1 below. <Take in Figure 1> 2.1 The Systematic Literature Review Protocol In the stage of the review, a search was conducted in the abstract field of the database for the following combination of keywords: responsible’ ABI/INFORM ‘Socially and / Procurement / Purchasing’; and / Procurement / ‘Sourcing ‘Ethical’ ‘Sourcing Purchasing’; and / Procurement / Purchasing’; ‘Sustainable’ ‘Sourcing ‘Social responsibility / Corporate social responsibility / Triple bottom line’ and chain’; ‘Supply and chain’ and Only peer reviewed articles from ‘Social’ ‘Supply ‘Sustainability’. scholarly journals published between 1997 till April 2013 were selected, resulting in a total of 631 relevant articles. In the second stage, the duplicated results were eliminated, reducing the total number of articles to 485. According to Denyer & Tranfield (), in a systematic review it is required to set relevance and quality selection criteria. Therefore, in the third stage the abstracts of these 485 articles were read carefully and only those articles that discussed the social dimension within socially responsible sourcing and published in journals that are part of the were selected. A large number of articles ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide 2010 dealing exclusively with environmental issues were excluded. However, broader literature which considers all three dimensions of the TBL are included as well as those that consider the social dimension alone. This procedure resulted in a short-list of 120 relevant articles. Two of the authors were involved in this stage, since the decisions regarding
by adapting a framework previously presented by Carter & Rogers (2008). In Section 5, the use of theoretical lenses in SRS research is discussed before the paper concludes with Section 6. 2. Method The systematic literature review methodology, as described by authors such as Tranfield et al. (2003) and Denyer & Tranfield (2009) has been used to construct a database of articles, which were evaluated in order to provide insight into our research questions. This systematic process of reviewing literature increases rigour by promoting replicability and reliability and by decreasing bias (); but more importantly it makes the process transparent (). In the following section we discuss the different stages that were followed while conducting the systematic literature review, as summarised in Figure 1 below. <Take in Figure 1> 2.1 The Systematic Literature Review Protocol In the stage of the review, a search was conducted in the abstract field of the ABI/INFORM database for the following combination of keywords: ‘Socially responsible’ and ‘Sourcing / Procurement / Purchasing’; ‘Ethical’ and ‘Sourcing / Procurement / Purchasing’; ‘Sustainable’ and ‘Sourcing / Procurement / Purchasing’; ‘Social responsibility / Corporate social responsibility / Triple bottom line’ and ‘Supply chain’; ‘Social’ and ‘Supply chain’ and ‘Sustainability’. Only peer reviewed articles from scholarly journals published between 1997 till April 2013 were selected, resulting in a total of 631 relevant articles. In the second stage, the duplicated results were eliminated, reducing the total number of articles to 485. According to Denyer & Tranfield (), in a systematic review it is required to set relevance and quality selection criteria. Therefore, in the third stage the abstracts of these 485 articles were read carefully and only those articles that discussed the social dimension within socially responsible sourcing and published in journals that are part of the ABS Academic Journal Quality Guide 2010 were selected. A large number of articles dealing exclusively with environmental issues were excluded. However, broader literature which considers all three dimensions of the TBL are included as well as those that consider the social dimension alone. This procedure resulted in a short-list of 120 relevant articles. Two of the authors were involved in this stage, since the decisions regarding
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