The Influence Of Food Corporate Supplier Management On The Corporate Social Performance

With the rapid development of economy of China, the problem of social moral in food industry has become increasingly prominent. We have survived in a series of food safety events, such as Sudan duck, melamine milk powder, cooking oil, lean and dyeing bread, etc. The reason why food corporations did that is that they were just pursued short-term interests. All of these actions results in harming the social public interests. And these behaviors stem from the lack of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development strategy. However, in many quality events of the corporations, it is not just from the corporations themselves. For example, in 2014, German auto maker Volkswagen announced it was recalling nearly 200000 vehicles because of a problem with the rear wheels. And the problem caused by supplier. KFC food safety events happened in that year and also by its supplier Shanghai Husi Food company. Because Shanghai Husi company used stale meat As the source of the entire supply chain, supplier is an important link of supply chain optimization, bringing the core competitiveness of enterprise into full play. As we can see, companies assist partners to fulfill its corporate social responsibility is of great significance, while promoting internal mechanism of corporate social responsibility.In the process of research, this paper refers to a large number of domestic and foreign literatures related to corporate social responsibility, adopts the method of combining normative analysis and empirical analysis. An all-round and deep research on stakeholders theory and corporate social responsibility theory has been made in this paper.First this paper discusses corporate social responsibility theory, and defines what is corporate social responsibility. And this paper summarizes the existing model of corporate social performance, and uses Warddock and Graves’ corporate social performance scale which follows the result pattern to define the content of corporate social performance. Second, the paper introduces the research status about supplier management of foreign and domestic literatures, summarizes the content of the supplier management, and defines the supplier management based on corporate social responsibility. On the basis of literature research, this paper puts forward and analyzes the relationship between supplier management and corporate social performance. At the same time, brings in corporate ethics atmosphere as moderating variable, and analyzes the mediating effect between supplier management and corporate social performance. Finally, this paper verify the relationship between supplier management and corporate social performance by empirical approach. And the object of investigation is food manufacturing companies. This study adopts SPSS 19.0 to analyze data which collect from questionnaires.The study findings and conclusions include:(1) Supplier management has a significant positive impact on corporate social performance.(2) Supplier management has no significant correlation with social honor performance.(3) Supplier management has a significant positive impact on social relationship performance has a significant positive impact.(4) Job satisfaction partial corporate ethics atmosphere has a mediating effect between supplier management and corporate social performance.In conclusion, the paper finds that although the corporate social responsibility caused widespread attention, also gradually implemented in the companies, but the understanding of social responsibility had to be improved for vast majority of companies in our country. Companies should eliminate the traditional supplier management model by forcing price down to transfer the operation cost, and establish long-term strategic partnership with suppliers, to seek mutual benefit and win-win cooperation model.