On the riskiness of lower‐tier suppliers: Managing sustainability in supply networks

Although multinational companies (MNCs) have increasingly embraced a sustainability strategy for their own operations, fewer have tried to engage their (tier‐one) suppliers in their sustainability initiatives. It is even rarer that MNCs engage their suppliers' suppliers (lower‐tier suppliers), despite the latter having a higher incidence of violations with more acute environmental and social impacts that can jeopardize the MNCs’ operations and...