Ethics and Competitiveness in Supply Chain Management
This study is motivated by a need for consideration of both ethics and competitiveness through supply chain activities and its management. This research, fro m the perspectives of Bosnian firms' emp loyees, aims to identify the frequency and personal disturbance level of ethics and hu man rights issues, experienced supply chains and competitiveness of the local co mpanies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, how managers handle ethics and human rights issues through their business and with their emp loyees, and how code of ethics have influences in the business level. In order to exp lore these issues, we adopted a survey based study which has been conducted on 185 emp loyees of Bosnian firms fro m six different cit ies in BIH. The results main ly indicated that the emp loyees of the surveyed companies strongly believe that their companies have considered ethics while constructing their business and supply chains. They moreover assumed that their co mpanies do not have ethical problems. However, they are rated to be slightly good in their ethical considerations about customer buying behavior and competitiveness.