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.

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Sustainable supply chains; Supplier choice; Psychological Distance; COVID-19 finan-cial crisis; Sustainable behaviour

本数据集对应论文《财务困境下的可持续供应商选择：空间与时间心理距离的相悖影响》。
摘要：经济危机下，环保导向型企业面临成本与可持续性之间的权衡困境，该困境会对其供应链管理决策造成影响。本研究受COVID-19大流行引发的供应链中断启发，聚焦金融危机背景下的供应商选择问题，探究心理距离(Psychological Distance)对成本-环保绩效权衡的影响。本研究开展三项总样本量为420的实验，考察了不同心理距离条件下，低成本供应商与环保型供应商的选择偏好。实验1与实验2分别表明，更近距离的空间距离与社会距离，会提升被试对环保型供应商的选择偏好。实验3进一步拓展了前述研究，结果显示心理距离会影响企业目标感知，并在供应商选择偏好中发挥中介作用。与之形成鲜明对比的是，实验4发现，更远的时间距离会提升对环保型供应商的选择偏好，这与空间距离的影响相悖，其背后机制在于企业目标评估出现反转。综上，本研究结果有助于更深入地理解COVID-19危机背景下，认知因素对可持续采购决策的影响。
关键词：可持续供应链(Sustainable supply chains)；供应商选择(Supplier choice)；心理距离(Psychological Distance)；COVID-19金融危机；可持续行为(Sustainable behaviour)