Volume : IX, Issue : VII, July - 2019

A RIGHT BASED APPROACH TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY

Ashis Chatterjee

Abstract :

Bigger industries claim that their products are socially responsible. However, most of their semi–finished products are being offloaded to various small and medium industries. The first tier suppliers again offload the part of product manufacturing along with social responsibilities to their own supply chain. Hence, when the product manufacturing is further outsourced, the social compliance in the smaller industries gets diluted. Moreover, there are inherent problems related to the small and medium industries, like, lack of manpower, finance, technological knowhow, unfair price competition, etc. The study was conducted in 2012 December amongst small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the NCR region. The objective was to understand the parameters of social responsibility amongst SMEs who are suppliers to the corporate houses. Qualitative data were collected based on informal discussion with the factory owners, managers, and labourers. It was found that the fluctuations in demand and high turnover of workers, force industries to go for taking workers from manpower agencies. Social audit cannot prevent all non–compliance. Interventions are desired to deal with the problems of integrating the supply chain in the business process to evolve a business responsibility beyond law. The interventions should be at different levels, i.e. governmental policy, local administration, NGO, industry and the purchasing organization.

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A RIGHT BASED APPROACH TO CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, Ashis Chatterjee INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-7 | July-2019

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