Case Study: Nike‚ Inc.‚ and Sweatshops Summary: As a company‚ Nike has been the dominant presence in the athletic apparel industry globally. Although they were not the only company known to practice unethical manufacturing processes‚ they were the major target of criticism because of their leadership role. To fight back against the negative publicity‚ Nike changed many working conditions and practices‚ arranged for independent audits by very reputable individuals in the industry to rate these
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Executive Summary Nike Inc. Peretti Vs. Nike: In January 2001‚ Peretti choose the word Sweatshop’ to be printed in his Nikes. Nike rejected order citing the company’s rules. In retort‚ Peretti order a pair of shoes with a colour snapshot of 10-year-old Vietnamese girl who makes my shoes". With the email exchange between Nike and Peretti being forwarded all over the world‚ it led to a huge PR Nightmare for the organization. All through Mid-1990s‚ Nike has been subjected to negative press‚
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"Nike is criticized for using sweatshops in countries like Indonesia and Mexico. The company has been subject to much critical coverage of the often poor working conditions and the exploitativeness of the cheap overseas labor." answers.com 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make product for Nike? Yes‚ but I do not believe that the firm is 100% responsible since it is the sub-contractors who operate
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Track Record of Nike How have Materialist economies shaped the social development and standard of living? Alec McLeod-Toussaint -28575534479500 Guide question Describe the gap between the developed and the developing nation in terms of their respective level of development. America’s human development index is 0.937 whereas Indonesia ‘s human development index 0.629 What is your selected ‘issue’ and which countries are most affected‚ both positively and negatively by it? Nike and the countless
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The Nike Sweatshop DebateShould Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where subcontractors make products for Nike?Nike is definitely not only responsible but also accountable for the working conditions of foreign factories that it does not own which it subcontracts with. Nike should have taken the initiative to be responsible of the contractors/employees working in other countries on a global scale. For example: Recently‚ Pepsi Cola was in
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Nike: The Sweatshop Debate analyzes the legal‚ cultural and ethical challenges confronted by global business and will also examine the roles that host governments have played while summarizing the strategic and operational challenges facing global managers at Nike. Having standards in place will protect the organization from a major crisis like the one formally faced by Nike. Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman created the world’s largest sportswear company‚ Nike‚ in 1962. Nike now controls more than
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Contents Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 Brief Historical of NIKE 3 Financial Statement 5 Total Revenue 6 Operating Income 6 Net Income 6 Recent News of Nike 7 PESTLE analysis 8 Political 8 Economic 8 Social 9 Technology 9 Marketing Strategies 11 Conclusion 12 References 13 Introduction In this assignment‚ we are going to study about the Nike in its home country‚ United State (U.S.). We choose Nike as our study due to; firstly‚ most of our team members like sporting
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A Cultural Study and Political Ecology of Nike Partially excerpted from Petrina‚ S. (2001). The political ecology of design and technology education: An inquiry into methods. International Journal of Technology and Design Education 10‚ 207-237. When we put our comfortable shoes on in the morning and take a step‚ our steps are always already scripted within powerful cultural processes. Shoes‚ no more so than the apparel covering our bodies‚ happen to provide particularly robust examples of how
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The research I have done about Nike’s labor practices was very interesting. I looked up responses of Nike to accuses on them on the internet. I found a couple of publications at www.Nikebiz.com. After I read them‚ I realized that Nike proclaims the same thing in an exaggerated style in every single one of them. For example in a Nike statement regarding the working conditions in El Salvador‚ Nike says that their constant goal always used to be to improve the safety at the working place and the indoor
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case study of Nike. The paper will be discussing legal and ethical analysis and how the impact the operational/ ethical issues of the organization‚ the paper shall also be discussing the contribution factors and how the company’s corporate culture may have helped to minimize the unethical behavior or actually contributed to/caused the unethical behavior. The paper is also going to provide ethical decision factors‚ which are going to address or going to be considered in resolving the legal/ethical issues
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