Effect of Training and Reward on Social Sustainability in Ghana’s Cocoa Supply Chain: The Role of Green Buyer-Supplier Relationship.

Q2 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing Pub Date : 2021-10-17 DOI:10.1080/08974438.2021.1981511

D. Amoako, Mohamad Norhayati Zakuan, Eugene Okyere-Kwakye, Francis Kamewor Tetteh

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Abstract This study was conducted to examine Ghana’s cocoa supply chain sustainability, with a focus on the effect of training and reward on social sustainability in Ghana’s cocoa, and also the unique role of green buyer-supplier relationship (governance and trust). Questionnaires were administered to three hundred and twenty-eight (328) cocoa farmers from the Western region of Ghana which generated the primary data for the research and the Partial Least Square (PLS-SEM) was used to aid the analysis of the data gathered. The result showed that both Training and Reward have directly affected social sustainability significantly and the same have indirectly affected social sustainability through the green buyer-supplier relationships (governance and trust). In addition, it was observed that the green buyer-supplier relationship positively related to social sustainability. The outcome of this study provides contemporary knowledge on how a combination of training and reward together with green buyer-supplier relationship (governance and trust) could enhance social sustainability in the cocoa industry. This study is among the very few scholarly works that have attempted to explore the drivers of social sustainability in the agri-food supply chain setting, especially, the context of developing economies. This study adds to the extant literature by providing a contemporary view of top management support and social sustainability in the context of the agri-food supply chain.

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培训和奖励对加纳可可供应链社会可持续性的影响：绿色供需关系的作用。

本研究旨在考察加纳可可豆供应链的可持续性，重点关注培训和奖励对加纳可可豆社会可持续性的影响，以及绿色买家-供应商关系(治理和信任)的独特作用。对来自加纳西部地区的328名可可农民进行了问卷调查，这产生了研究的主要数据，并使用偏最小二乘法(PLS-SEM)来帮助分析所收集的数据。结果表明，培训和奖励对社会可持续性都有显著的直接影响，并通过绿色买方-供应商关系(治理和信任)间接影响社会可持续性。此外，我们观察到绿色买家-供应商关系与社会可持续性正相关。本研究的结果提供了关于培训和奖励与绿色买方-供应商关系(治理和信任)相结合如何提高可可产业的社会可持续性的当代知识。本研究是为数不多的试图探索农业食品供应链环境中社会可持续性驱动因素的学术著作之一，特别是在发展中经济体的背景下。本研究补充了现有文献，在农业食品供应链的背景下，提供了高层管理支持和社会可持续性的当代观点。

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Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing Business, Management and Accounting-Business and International Management

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期刊介绍： The Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing is a timely journal that serves as a forum for the exchange and dissemination of food and agribusiness marketing knowledge and experiences on an international scale. Designed to study the characteristics and workings of food and agribusiness marketing systems around the world, the journal critically examines marketing issues in the total food business chain prevailing in different parts of the globe by using a systems and cross-cultural/national approach to explain the many facets of food marketing in a range of socioeconomic and political systems.