Dataset for article "Sustainable Supplier Selection under Financial Hardships"

Dataset for article Sustainable Supplier Selection under Financial Hardships: The Conflicting Impact of Spatial and Temporal Psychological Distances. <strong>Abstract</strong>: Economic crises stress trade-offs between costs and sustainability for environmentally orientated firms impacting supply chain management decisions. Inspired by the disruption to supply caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore supplier selection during a financial crisis, studying the impact of psychological distance on the cost-environmental performance trade-off. Across three experiments (N = 420), we examine the choice between a low-cost and an environ-mental supplier at close and far psychological distances. Study 1 and Study 2 demonstrates that a closer spatial and social distances, respectively, increase preference for the environmental suppli-er. Study 3 extends these studies by showing that distance influences perceptions of the firm’s ob-jectives, mediating supplier preference. In contrast, Study 4 shows that a far temporal distance in-creases the preferences for selecting the environmental supplier, differing from spatial distance, due to a reversal in the appraisal of the firm’s objectives. Taken together, our results provide a greater understanding of cognitive influences on sustainable procurement decision-making dur-ing the COVID-19 crisis.<br> <br> <strong>Keywords</strong>: Sustainable supply chains; Supplier choice; Psychological Distance; COVID-19 finan-cial crisis; Sustainable behaviour