Corporate Social responsibility in Global Value Chains Evaluation and monitoring challenges for small and medium sized suppliers in developing countries
- Document number
- 3080
- Date
- 2012
- Title
- Corporate Social responsibility in Global Value Chains Evaluation and monitoring challenges for small and medium sized suppliers in developing countries
- Author/publisher
- UNCTAD
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Corporate, social, responsibility, value chains, monitoring, challenges, evaluation, developing countries, CSR, companies, businesses, compliance, global, market
- Summary
This analysis of the CSR practices of large companies and the implications of these practices for small and medium suppliers in developing countries, is intended to contribute to ongoing policy discussions about CSR and enterprise development. Today, supplier codes of conduct have become common among the world’s largest companies in their efforts to influence the social and environmental behaviour of their value chain members. For many SMEs in developing countries, complying with these codes creates a new set of challenges as these firms attempt to enter into global value chains. Enterprise development programmes in many countries, however, have not adapted to this new business landscape and do not provide SMEs with the necessary skills to meet the CSR demands of the global market.