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Social Sustainability Practices within the Supply Chain of Multinational Corporations - How consistent are Multinationals with the implementation of social sustainability within their supply chain in regulatory distant countries? (Paperback)
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Social Sustainability Practices within the Supply Chain of Multinational Corporations - How consistent are Multinationals with the implementation of social sustainability within their supply chain in regulatory distant countries? (Paperback)
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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Business
economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,0 (Honours
Degree), - (ESADE Business School), course: Supply Chain
Management, language: English, abstract: Today, most Multinational
Corporations (MNCs) are eager to install sustainable standards not
just within their own but also within their supply chain
operations. While the two pillars of sustainability, economic and
environmental, are well researched within this field of business,
the third pillar, social sustainability (SSS)lags behind within the
researchers' focus. However, because of recent social scandals
within the supply chain operations of Multinationals, an
investigation targeting social sustainability and its effective
implementation within the supply chain would provide important
insights into such yet neglected field of research. This thesis
tries to tackle this issue and analyses whether MNCs extent their
SSS practices to suppliers in regulatory distant countries the same
way as they do within countries close to their home market. The
thesis intends to fill the research gap which exists around SSS and
provides valuable insides into how consistent MNCs are in extending
SSS practices among their supplier network. On the basis of
telephone interviews and company data, the thesis analyses the
social sustainability efforts of The Otto Group, the second largest
online retailer in the world. The two methods to monitor suppliers'
compliance that are examined in this thesis are assessment and
collaboration. Results show, that Multinationals should not rely on
either one of these two monitoring methods, but should combine
them, using Assessment only as first step, and Collaboration as
second. Since assessment usually provides the buyer solely with a
snapshot of the current situation at suppliers' site, collaboration
as second step provides the relationship with a more mutual c
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