Essays on Supplier Code Of Conduct

Apple is an American technology company that was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. Apple is known for designing, manufacturing, and marketing of personal computers, software, mobile phones, portable digital music players, media communication devices. They also offer networking solutions and sell third-party digital music and application (Apple Inc, 2015). In summary, Apple’s business nature is manufacturing technology devices, software and providing various services to clients. Apple’s hardware products include Apple TV, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. The software applications offered by the company include OSX and iOS operating systems. Apple also sells ...

Nowadays global production networks are vital for many large companies and lots of smaller enterprises in the developing countries. In the early 2000s, Apple took a strategic decision to outsource production abroad. Supply chain management, flexibility, and production speed are some of the factors that make production overseas effective and beneficial for Apple (Moyer, 2012). However, cooperating with a very large number of suppliers is not easy and there may be a lot of criticism that can harm company’s image. Therefore Apple respects foreign suppliers, but requires them to pay more attention to the conditions in which employees ...

Introduction

Today's business environment is dynamic. The rapid changes in technology specifically have posed challenges to businesses. Apple cannot be excluded from this cluster and most especially because it operates in the Information Technology and Electronic industry which evolves every waking moment. For that matter, Apple formulated a Supplier Code of Conduct in 2005 to act as a guideline of the relationship between Apple and its suppliers. Over time, Apple has made some changes to the code of conduct to cope with the changing times; socially, technologically, economically and politically. This paper lists the various changes that Apple has made ...

Virgin Group

Abstract Being a successful business with a long term growth potentiality is the most important objective of any business organization. Success of a business can be defined in many ways and there are a number of alternative notions of success that are commonly used by business analysts. The current dissertation explores four different notions of success and their limitations in the real world. The notions of success are explored in the context of one of the most successful conglomerates of the 20th century, Virgin Group. While the funding, profits, and management structure look into the internal aspects regarding the success of a business; ...

Current Position on Ethics and Corporate Responsibility

Apple Corp. is one of the largest design, manufacturing and seller of mobile and communication devices globally, including some of the world most popular models, such as iPhone, Mac and Apple TV. Company business model offers several retail channels that include own physical stores, retail stores and cellular network retailers and online sales. Net sales for fiscal year 2012 reached as high as USD 156 mln, reflecting 30% growth comparing to the same period of 2011. Company´s financial figures reflect continues improvement on profit margins that have grown 58% between years 2011-2012 (United States Security and Exchange Commissions, ...

Ethics defines how a society needs to behave in consideration of moral standards. It summarizes how an individual would like to be treated and their reciprocation of the same treatment. A business involves a number of individual working together to create a product or service. Golden Claw Company is one that has shown strong decisions with the effect of promoting and sustaining corporate social responsibility within the society, and in this case, the globalised society. Golden Claw Company is involved in developing and distributing computer technology and selling a number of computer varieties such as portable media devices, personal computers, software, hardware and ...