Should You Buy Your Customer's Values? On the Transfer of Moral Values in Industrial Purchasing

This article discusses a transfer of moral values between purchasing and supplying organisation in the manufacturing sector. In the first part, the relevant literature is discussed to glean criteria, which could facilitate such a transfer. Given a scarcity of research into ethics in purchasing, the...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. VerfasserIn: Preuss, Lutz (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Lade...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Veröffentlicht: Proquest 2000
In: International journal of value-based management
Jahr: 2000, Band: 13, Heft: 2, Seiten: 141-158
weitere Schlagwörter:B Business Ethics
B ethics in purchasing
B environmental protection in purchasing
Online Zugang: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:This article discusses a transfer of moral values between purchasing and supplying organisation in the manufacturing sector. In the first part, the relevant literature is discussed to glean criteria, which could facilitate such a transfer. Given a scarcity of research into ethics in purchasing, the literature review is extended into related fields, such as total quality management, environmental purchasing in retailing and minority vendor programmes in the U.S. In the second part, the question is raised whether such a transfer can at all lay claim to being of moral value. The process is screened against established ethical theories, which are found to support it. Finally, the financial impact of such a policy on the supplier is considered.
ISSN:1572-8528
Enthält:Enthalten in: International journal of value-based management
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1007798200832