Abstract
The management of lower-tier suppliers is crucial to achieve high performance in sustainable supply chains. With regard to this, multiple management strategies and application contexts have been proposed so far. Using the contingency approach, this article summarizes the extant contexts as well as strategies and adds the supplier context to build a three-dimensional framework to evaluate the context-strategy fit. It moreover proposes short- and long-term performance measures to enable a more holistic evaluation of multi-tier sustainable supply chain management context-strategy-performance relationships. Finally, adaption scenarios are discussed to give implications for focal firms on how to match strategy and context.