The article analyzes internal and external corporate sustainability practices, along with supply chain agility, to achieve superior performance. Internal practices address human resources, community, and environment, while external practices focus on social and environmental sustainability of the supply chain and accountability to customers. The results are derived from a questionnaire of more than 150 manufacturing and trading companies, analyzed with fsQCA, and reveal 6 different configurations to achieve the same high sustainability performance. The identified practices and supply chain agility are key resources for managers to achieve meaningful sustainability results. The theoretical framework to explain what was found is Resource Orchestration Theory (ROT), which emphasizes the importance of the combination of practices, not their single effect. These are important implications for companies to maximize corporate sustainability through judicious resource management and strategic configuration of internal and external practices along the supply chain.
