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Sustainable Supply Chains: Ethical Challenges and Actions for Best Practice

Sustainable Supply Chains: Ethical Challenges and Actions for Best Practice
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Author(s): Janine M. Pierce (University of South Australia, Australia)and Donna M. Velliaris (Independent Researcher, Australia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 15
Source title: Emerging Applications in Supply Chains for Sustainable Business Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): M. Vijaya Kumar (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India), Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal), K. Jayakrishna (Vellore Institute of Technology University, India), V. Madhusudanan Pillai (National Institute of Technology Calicut, India)and Leonilde Varela (University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5424-0.ch007

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Abstract

Supply chains provide many challenges to organizations relating to ethical practices at all levels of the supply chain in an often non-transparent environment, with different operator values through different geographic and cultural locations. Considerations are discussed relating to the link between ethics and brand success, challenges and risk issues relating to ethical supply chains, the role of partnering with others in the supply chain, and the friend or foe consideration of NGOs. The importance and value of bodies such as the UN Global Compact and ACSI to comply with sustainability standards and achieve accreditation as a double benefit strategy for being a responsible organization, as well as enhancing brand, are highlighted. The values of certification and partnership networks are emphasized, with concluding reflections on how partnerships and strength in ethical supply chain are dependent on the need to have every link in the chain be ethical and transparent.

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