The purpose of this essay is to identify the main injustice found in the cotton supply chain and what factors determine to this Human Rights violation. To “identify” this ethical issue, we will make an analysis of the cotton supply chain stakeholders, understanding each stakeholder role on the cotton production and their interactions with each other and discuss their conflicts and potential alliances. We will associate the identified ethical issue in three different levels of economic activity, in micro-level, meso-level and macro-level. Moreover, for a full comprehension of this matters we will need first to understand the meaning of business ethics and the definition of Stakeholder.
Business Ethics
Before identifying the ethical problem, we need to understand the reason and the source that generates this problem, within also, to comprehend first, the body knowledge of the business ethics and why is it crucially important to this work.
Business ethics is more complex than the conventional ethics, “a social, religious, or civil code of behaviour considered correct, that of a particular group, profession, or individual” (Russell, 1949). Business ethics evaluate moral and ethical behaviour focusing on business policies and practises, “is the study of business situations, activities, and decisions where issues of right and wrong are …show more content…
Edward Freeman in ‘Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach’, defines a stakeholder as “any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organisation’s objectives” (R. Edward Freeman, 1984: 46),so (tlz por additionaly) everyone who suffer direct and indirectly by the achievements of an organisation and could have one or more stakes in an organisation and could be affected not only for the organisations achievements but be affected for all the organisations actions, policies, practices and decisions.(Carroll, A & Buchholtz,