Yet traditional approaches to ensuring environmental, health and safety compliance, for example checklist audits, have proved difficult. The authors carried out research above a one-and-a-half-year duration with leading multinational buyers (mostly in the clothing and footwear industries) as well as with NGOs and business groups active in China. They are helping providers use stuff, water and energy more efficiently and reaching to where the major environmental damage occurs. At precisely the same time, they are overcoming their traditional reluctance as competitors to work in fixing and tracking problems at common providers.
The authors illustrate advanced strategies that companies such as Nike are taking. More generally, the authors' recommendations include providing incentives for disclosing identifying and addressing issues; creating collaborative relationships with NGOs and industry groups and working with providers; and finding means to learn from suppliers'best practices and to assist learning among suppliers.
PUBLICATION DATE: January 01, 2012 PRODUCT #: SMR408-HCB-ENG
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