Ethical Issues in Global Supply Chain Management

The paper addresses the general nature of a supply chain as a human artifact with potential for greatness and for failure like any other. The exact nature of the possible failures and successes are discussed, and the ethical issues identified. The hazards of adversarial supply chain management, especially the more vicious forms of it, are identified. Intra-chain brutality is rarely as profitable as mutual supportiveness if we think, as the world's first international lawyer said we should, prudently and well into the future. The paper concludes with one drastic example of what happens when we do not.