387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors‚ including governments‚ consumers‚ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe‚ relying
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& Uruguay 1999 Zara is now in 56 countries Source: Author based on Inditex Group‚ 2010 As it can be seen from the graph above‚ Zara first focused primarily on the national market until 1988. In a next step it grew predominantly in Europe before expanding heavily all over the globe‚ reaching among others markets such as Montenegro‚ Syria or the Philippines. But what made Zara so successful in becoming a global player so fast? What have been the
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| |Processed Foods Versus Whole Foods | |Cancer Causing or Cancer Curing | | When you think of foods‚ do you associate what you eat
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3. Value chains: Real or Virtual? With the steady grown in the country’s economy as well as the people’s living standards‚ the rhythm of people’s living is speeding up and a lot of changes have taken place in their daily life. The discussion about whether or not the Value chains is real or virtual is a very controversial one. Many people take the view that the reality of the value chain has a strong applied legacy. Nevertheless‚ there are also a majority of people insist that the value chain is
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Customer Value Proposition in Value Markets Business houses that are our customers are under constant pressure to cut down their cost. With this concern at the back of their mind‚ out of the sales pitch‚ they mainly concentrate on the price quoted to them. In such cases‚ the supplier needs to demonstrate the core value offerings/ benefits with extra vigor to persuade the customer to make the purchase. Marketing managers tend to neglect the real contribution of value propositions to superior business
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Enterprise Technologies and the Value Chain Unit 5 Assignment Brett Sullivan Kaplan University GB570: Managing the Value Chain Pricilla Aaltonen February 28‚ 2012 Enterprise Technologies and the Value Chain Enterprise technologies play many roles in supporting the value chain. They can be used in the supply chain to enable businesses to communicate and share information with the vendors and suppliers in order ensure they are able to meet demand. They also allow companies to gather and
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Application: Individual Case Study Analysis‚ Case 10 Analyzing Promotion Data: Applying to 80% Rule Lakisha Richardson Abstract This analysis explains the thoughts and ideas about Case 10: Analyzing Promotion Data. It references the problems noted and within the case as well as the legal issues that apply. Based on the background and research‚ an overview of a solution to the problem and an implementation process to be executed by Tom Rutherford‚ HR director of Food Chain Supermarkets‚ Inc. can
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Strategy Management Process Introduction: Organic food is known for being the healthiest type food on our planet. These foods are produced from the earth naturally without any type of modern synthetic inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilizers. They also do not contain any genetic modified organisms‚ and are not processed using irradiation‚ industrial solvents‚ or chemical food additives. Whole Foods has been offering these types of foods at all of their locations starting with their first
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November 28‚ 2012 November 28‚ 2012 Aisling Lynch C09687271 Aisling Lynch C09687271 Stratgic management the value chain concept: literature review and application analysis on IKEA Stratgic management the value chain concept: literature review and application analysis on IKEA Contents * Introduction * Origination * Porter’s Value Chain Concept * Linking of the Value Chain * Focus on External Sources * The Future - Conclusion * Ikea Example * References Declaration I‚
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a. Where in the value chain is the organisation creating value for their customers? Primary: Value chain activity Yes/No How does The Body Shop create value for the customer? Inbound Logistics No Not imperative to creating value to the customer. Operations Yes Operations and technological development are covered in the The Body Shops stance on animal testing (one of their values). Testing comes under operations and technological development as they have had to think of innovative ways to test
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