Ethical Outsourcing and the Act of Acting Together

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Author(s): Yue S. Ang (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 18
Source title: Empowering Organizations through Corporate Social Responsibility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ruth Wolf (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Theodora Issa (Curtin University, Australia)and Monica Thiel (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7294-9.ch006

Keywords: Business and Organizational Research / Business Science Reference / Ethics & Law / Security & Forensics

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The European Commission (2011) defines Corporate Social Responsibility as “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis” (p. 3). Outsourcing affects the interests of laborers and ethical outsourcing protects their interests through the act of acting together, ensuring that labor protection is a shared responsibility between the participants. An aspect of social philosophy helps rectify this problem by introducing ethical outsourcing that occurs upon fulfilling the combination of three features: (1) the inclusion of all participants in a joint activity, (2) all participants agree to enter into a multi-lateral agreement, (3) the voluntarism of each participant practicing CSR is strengthened by the peer-to-peer demands of fulfilling these obligations. This chapter proposes that business leaders must find incentives engaging their outsourcing participants in multi-lateral contractual agreements. The empowerment of the participating organizations is incentivizing because of the engagement in participatory decision-making through the act of acting together.

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