Why rattle your supply chains?

Globalization has brought many new challenges to the business world, but few rival that of ensuring the ever-extending supply chains are managed -- in conditions of increasing transparency -- to the entire satisfaction of campaigning NGOs, the media and, most importantly, customers and consumers. No...

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Published in:Corporate Responsibility Management 2006-02, Vol.2 (4), p.3
Main Author: Elkington, John
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Annual reports
Compliance
Corporate responsibility
Globalization
Suppliers
Supply chains
Sustainability
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Summary:Globalization has brought many new challenges to the business world, but few rival that of ensuring the ever-extending supply chains are managed -- in conditions of increasing transparency -- to the entire satisfaction of campaigning NGOs, the media and, most importantly, customers and consumers. No surprise, then, that growing numbers of companies -- including many that have never been targeted in relation to supply chain issues -- are reporting on their thinking, priorities, actions and progress in their annual reports. But you do not have to be an anti-business, anti-globalization fanatic to wonder how complete, fair and accurate the bulk of this reporting might be.
ISSN:1744-0157
1744-0165