IKEA: Global sourcing and sustainable leather initiatives
IKEA: Global sourcing and sustainable leather initiatives
Aims: the aim of this teaching case is to illustrate the Sustainable Global Sourcing (SGS) practices of IKEA influenced by its Global Sourcing (GS) strategy and structure aspects through a case study of the sustainable leather initiative.
Scope: this study is developed though 20 face-to-face interviews with IKEA managers in both Sweden and China, covering all the major SGS-related departments i.e. purchasing,
sustainability, IWAY, and competence center (sustainable project team).
Contribution: we provide a benchmark of SGS for other multinational companies and allows for a thorough discussion of a sustainability initiative in a GS context. The case can be used to teach graduate/postgraduate in agricultural economics, MBA and executive students on sustainable supply chain management and corporate social responsibility.
Global sourcing strategy, global sourcing structure, sustainable leather initiatives, teaching case
Jiang, Yan
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Jia, Fu
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Gong, Yu
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25 March 2018
Jiang, Yan
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Jia, Fu
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Gong, Yu
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Jiang, Yan, Jia, Fu and Gong, Yu
(2018)
IKEA: Global sourcing and sustainable leather initiatives.
In 27th IPSERA Conference, Athens, Greece, 25-28 March, 2018.
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Aims: the aim of this teaching case is to illustrate the Sustainable Global Sourcing (SGS) practices of IKEA influenced by its Global Sourcing (GS) strategy and structure aspects through a case study of the sustainable leather initiative.
Scope: this study is developed though 20 face-to-face interviews with IKEA managers in both Sweden and China, covering all the major SGS-related departments i.e. purchasing,
sustainability, IWAY, and competence center (sustainable project team).
Contribution: we provide a benchmark of SGS for other multinational companies and allows for a thorough discussion of a sustainability initiative in a GS context. The case can be used to teach graduate/postgraduate in agricultural economics, MBA and executive students on sustainable supply chain management and corporate social responsibility.
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Published date: 25 March 2018
Keywords:
Global sourcing strategy, global sourcing structure, sustainable leather initiatives, teaching case
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/419435
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Yan Jiang
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Fu Jia
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