This week’s topics
Ethics in global supply chains
- Fair pay and working conditions
- Child labour and fair trade
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Discuss ethical issues in global supply chains.
Activity
Discuss a real supply-chain scandal and what went wrong.
Study materials
Further resources
- Principles of Marketing, ch. 17.7: Ethical issues in supply chain management · PDF · OpenStax (2023), labour, child labour, fair trade; pp. 597–601 · for registered students
- Business Ethics, ch. 6.2: What constitutes a fair wage? · PDF · OpenStax (2018); pp. 155–161 · for registered students
- OECD MNE Guidelines (2023), ch. II: General policies and due diligence · PDF · OECD (2023) – a step up; pp. 14–20 · for registered students
- Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike · Open-access article · Locke et al. (2007), ILR Review. Uses audits of 800+ Nike suppliers in 51 countries to ask whether factory monitoring works. · for registered students
- Moving Up or Moving Out? Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor Market Outcomes · Open-access article · Harrison and Scorse (2010), American Economic Review. Tests what anti-sweatshop campaigns against global brands did for factory wages in Indonesia. · for registered students
- The Economics of Fair Trade · Open-access article · Dragusanu et al. (2014), Journal of Economic Perspectives. How Fairtrade certification works and what evidence says about its benefits for producers. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
