The Limits of Supply Chain Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of Corporate Responsibility Instruments

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Mares
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
The Core ◽  
Corporate Social

AbstractOne challenge in the area of supply chain management has been achieving sustainable compliance with labour rights throughout the entire production chain, including lower tiers of production. This article inquires specifically around sub-contracting, especially what is a brand's or a buyer's responsibility regarding workers' rights beyond its first tier of suppliers. In-depth literature on this issue remains scarce despite buyer's responsibility being at the core of outsourcing, the very area that brought disrepute to Nike and thus moved corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the international limelight 15 years ago. This article reviews 12 prominent CSR instruments and asks: do they provide legitimacy to calls that buyers should be responsible for labour conditions down their supply chains? Where do these responsibilities end as abuses become more remote and take place at lower tiers of the value chain? What are the concepts, the principles that attribute responsibility to the buyer company and what concepts are used to limit these responsibilities? What strategies exist to improve conditions at sub-contractor level? Reading a dozen CSR instruments with a keen eye to sub-contracting reveals a staggering diversity of answers. The responsibility of the core company, particularly the limits of responsibility, move in and out of focus. Questions around buyers' responsibilities remain open, but there is a wealth of concepts and experience to draw upon. Professor Ruggie, a United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General, could bring clarity in this area of CSR and is invited to reconsider the justification, scope and content of a buyer company's responsibility to protect workers' rights in its value chains.

scholarly journals An empirical study of oil and gas value chain agility in the UAE

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 3541-3569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ala Shqairat ◽  
Balan Sundarakani
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Moderate Effect ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the agility of oil and gas value chains in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and to understand the impact of implementing supply disruption (SD) strategies, outsourcing strategies (OS) and management strategies (MS) on oil and gas value chain agility (VCA). The results can support the oil and gas industry across the UAE to build resilience in the value chain. Design/methodology/approach The research design consists of a comprehensive literature review, followed by questionnaire-based survey responses of 106 participants and comprehensive statistical analysis, thus validate the developed theoretical framework and contribute to both practical and methodological approaches. Findings The findings indicate that oil and gas value chain in the UAE has moderate a significant degree of SD, when OS in place that are synchronized with the overall MS. Among the hypotheses developed, two were accepted thus warranting both SD strategies (r=+0.432) and MS (r= +0.457) found to have a positive moderate effect on VCA. The third hypothesis was rejected by revealing OS (r=+0.387) found to have a positive moderate relationship with VCA. Therefore, implementation of all three strategies has a positive moderate effect on the agility of the value chain and, therefore, supports to sustain competitive position. Research limitations/implications Some of the limitations of this research include the geographic coverage of the study region and other methodological limitation. Practical implications The research provides guidance for oil and gas supply chain managers to better understand the critical factors that impact and determine VCA. The paper also describes relevant strategies that should be taken into consideration by these managers in order to build their agile value chains. Social implications The research contributes to the social dimensions of supply chain sustainability of how resilient is the oil and gas value chain during uncertain conditions, so that it can respond to uncertain changes in order to contribute to corporate social responsibility. Originality/value This research is the first of its kind in the UAE region to assess the link between dimensions of agile value chain, OS, SD strategies and MS primarily from the Emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Transnational Law and the Ethnography of Corporate Social Responsibility

2021 ◽  
pp. 1028-1050
Author(s):  
Laura Knöpfel
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Bridge Building

This chapter introduces transnational law as a bridge-building modality between different forms of knowledge, internal as well as external to the law. It juxtaposes, in an exemplarily way, legal and anthropological knowledge about corporate social responsibility in global value chains in order to reveal transnational law’s faculty to find creative solutions to border-transcending human problems. It shows how nonlegal knowledge may inform on legal doctrine through an investigation of certain anthropological concepts—such as the gift and reciprocity, performance and the secular ritual, relational personhood and detachment. This chapter presents a way of ‘doing interdisciplinarity’ that avoids the danger of instrumentalizing nonlegal knowledge to find ‘better’ solutions to doctrinal problems. By drawing on transnational law as a methodology of mutual irritation and translation, this chapter pushes the boundaries of legal research into the pressing questions of corporate responsibility in entangled cross-border economic relations.s

Collaborative Web for Natural Resources Industries

2012 ◽  
pp. 601-614
Author(s):  
Nikhil Chaturvedi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Equipment Maintenance ◽  
Materials Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
Core Value

The roles of these external entities span across various functions of the core value chain. This chapter focuses on collaboration in the core functions like geo-sciences, engineering, production operations, supply chain, transportation & logistics, equipment maintenance, materials management, sales and marketing, and environment health and safety (EH&S) etc.

Conception at the Core of Knowledge Creativity Based on E-Commerce in Networked Manufacturing Mode

2011 ◽  
Vol 403-408 ◽  
pp. 3174-3177
Author(s):  
Sheng Fu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Networked Manufacturing ◽  
Integrated Manufacturing ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
Collaborative Commerce ◽  
Collaborative Manufacturing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Manufacturing Mode

This paper, at the core of Knowledge-based enterprise driven by order,led by value chain, analyzes typical industries and their trend. A Networked manufacture pattern facing to the supply chain and integrating ERP\CRM\SCM\CIMS information platform is constructed.Then it puts forward the conception on e-commerce which is based on creativity and in networked manufacturing mode.Thus it comes up with the viewpoint of Integrated Manufacturing, Business Collaborative Manufacturing, Collaborative Commerce informatization public platform,Individual Customer Portal.

scholarly journals How supply chain management can contribute to European integration?

2005 ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Werner Delfmann
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Corporate Strategy ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The Individual

The author wants to discuss how the dynamics of global value chains and the implementation of the concept of Supply Chain Management impact the process of European Integration. Not only the Economic Integration. He wants to explicate that and how this impact goes further into the domains of social and even cultural integration. While Value Chain research has a strong economic focus, including international trade and developing countries issues (Kaplinsky, 2004), Supply Chain Management, SCM is focused on the individual company level, vertical co-operation and corporate strategy. Both perspectives are inseparably intertwined. However, with the following reflections he wants to emphasise the inter-company perspective of SCM. In explicating the conceptual alternatives of SCM, SC Governance and their dynamics in a general way, he wants to lay the groundwork for the final conclusions regarding the potential impacts of SCM on European Integration.

A conceptualization of corporate social (ir)responsibility and moral intensity in the supply chain

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 602-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodie Ferguson ◽  
Brian Brown ◽  
D. Eric Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Moral Intensity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gray Area ◽  
Irresponsible Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) within the supply chain. The discussion focuses on the social component of social responsibility and explores its effects on end-users. Moreover, this paper presents moral intensity, a construct introduced in the ethics literature, as a potential guide to managers who struggle to navigate the gray area between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and CSI. Design/methodology/approach This paper conceptualizes CSI within the supply chain and offers a framework and propositions for understanding and preventing irresponsible behavior from a moral intensity perspective. Findings The moral intensity framework provides a normative approach with the potential to guide managers who face choices involving decisions that might lead to irresponsible behavior in interorganizational settings. Originality/value This paper draws attention to business-to-business CSI and the limited research that focuses on the social aspects of CSR, rather than the environmental and economic factors emphasized in prior research. It also introduces the moral intensity framework to the supply chain literature and highlights the end-user’s (i.e. consumer’s) role in influencing the performance of the overall value chain.

Collaborative Web for Natural Resources Industries

2011 ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Nikhil Chaturvedi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Equipment Maintenance ◽  
Materials Management ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
Core Value

The roles of these external entities span across various functions of the core value chain. This chapter focuses on collaboration in the core functions like geo-sciences, engineering, production operations, supply chain, transportation & logistics, equipment maintenance, materials management, sales and marketing, and environment health and safety (EH&S) etc.

scholarly journals The Role and Liability of Certification Organisations in Transnational Value Chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 83-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola Glinski ◽  
Peter Rott
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
English Law ◽  
Corporate Social

Certification organisations have become important players in the monitoring of compliance with social and environmental standards. This is particularly the case in relation to corporate operators producing in or sourcing from developing countries. At the same time, some of the worst industrial disasters in recent years, such as the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Pakistan or the collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh, occurred after the relevant operators had been certified for their compliance with standards. This raised doubts about the care that the relevant certification organisation had exercised. This article explores potential grounds on which corporate social responsibility (CSR) certification organisations may incur liability towards third parties, in particular employees of subsidiaries or suppliers. To this end, it discusses the functions of certification generally before it analyses the potential liability of certification bodies under German and English law. It considers various circumstances under which certification takes place, including certification that is required by law, certification that is required to obtain certain benefits, such as tax reductions, certification within private CSR schemes and the entirely voluntary use of CSR certification as an instrument of supply chain control.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility for a sustainable inclusive growth in India

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.K. Mishra ◽  
Punam Singh ◽  
Shulagna Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
The Core ◽  
Corporate Social

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Inclusive growth and Sustainability are essential aspects of the core strategy and business practices for cutting edge organizations. Sustainable development and CSR as an agenda, have matured rapidly, and is driven by demand for greater accountability by corporate to society in India. Views on corporate responsibility have contributed to mounting pressure on business to demonstrate its social accountability. The paper is aimed at formulating a conceptual framework for sustainable inclusive growth and also elaborates the CSR areas of Oil and Gas Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE’s) in India for sustainable inclusive growth. The paper is based on secondary data and focuses on highlighting the CPSE approaches to CSR in the pre and post implementation of CSR guidelines in India. The paper also discusses cases demonstrating innovation by Indian companies to bring in sustainable inclusive growth.

scholarly journals FINE SLICING OF THE VALUE CHAIN AND OFFSHORING OF ESSENTIAL ACTIVITIES: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM EUROPEAN MULTINATIONALS

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esmeralda Linares-Navarro ◽  
Torben Pedersen ◽  
José Pla-Barber
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
The Core ◽  
Design And Product Development

The offshoring of more advanced activities is increasing and a debate about the limits of offshoring has emerged. Companies are fine-slicing their value chains, and moving beyond the offshoring of peripheral and non-core activities to the offshoring of advanced and essential activities that are closer to their core (e.g. research, design and product development). The challenge is to understand the limits of offshoring and the most appropriate modes of offshoring. The purpose of this paper is to analyze what activities are offshorable and how best to govern offshored activities. We argue that companies are redefining their core activities and in this process, some essential activities previously viewed as core activities are being detached from the core, and they become more offshorable.

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