Impact of corporate responsibility on supply chain partnership and financial performance

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of corporate responsibility dimensions (internal awareness, monitoring and sharing the best practices of corporate responsibility) on the supply chain partnership and financial performance of large manufacturing firms in Khuzestan Province. The population of this applied research consisted of 180 large manufacturing firms and with using Cochran's formula for limited society, 135 firms were selected. Statistical unit of society were the supply/finance managers of said firms and research questionnaire was distributed to them for each firm. The data collection instrument is questionnaire and which its content validity was evaluated through experts and academics, and its construct validity was confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis. Structural equation models and SPSS 22 have been used in order to analysis the data. The results indicate that all corporate responsibility dimensions (internal awareness, monitoring and sharing best practices) have significant impact on supply chain partnership but it is not significant on financial performance. In addition supply chain partnership have a positive and significant impact on financial performance.