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"True" and Profitable Sustainability Management: How Supply Management is Key to Fulfilling a Promise This deck illustrates the findings of an A.T. Kearney and Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) survey of 25 North American Fortune 100 companies.
Social Responsibility and the Supply Management Profession: A Study of Barriers and Drivers to Ethical Practices This report contains the results of a survey conducted in late 2005 by the ISM Ethical Standards Committee to gain an understanding of what is happening within organizations on the ethics front and draw conclusions to help management be more effective in ensuring ethical behavior.
Social Responsibility and the Supply Management Profession: A Baseline Study This study was released by ISM in April 2004 in conjunction with the launch of the ISM Social Responsibility initiative. It reports the results of a large-scale survey of supply managers that measured the baseline level of activity in their organizations relating to ISM’s seven Principles of Social Responsibility.
Purchasing's Contribution to the Socially Responsible Management of the Supply Chain (CAPS Research) This CAPS Focus Study contains the results of research conducted in 2000 to identify the activities encompassed within purchasing social responsibility (PSR), as well as the factors that drive PSR, barriers and ways to overcome them, and the outcomes of PSR.
Telecom Supplier Diversity Task Force Report: Revitalizing the Supplier Diversity Value Proposition through Supply Chain Effectiveness (Full Report [5.7 MB] | Executive Summary) This report, published in 2003 by the Telecom Supplier Diversity Task Force, offers 21 supply chain recommendations to improve supplier diversity programs.