Ethics, ethical leadership, and supply chain management

Abstract

To analyze ethics and sustainability in supply chain management: ethics, business ethics and ethical leadership are briefly explained. Ethics is important for the business in 4 aspects: customers, suppliers, competitors and employees. In this chapter, supply management will be given a more detailed examination with sustainability and an ethical point of view. Besides the governmental regulations, big companies also feel social responsibility and take action for the procurement of their supplier's conditions. Sustainability, ethics, ethical leadership are the main problems for a successful supply chain management system.