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Nike’s CSR Challenge | Case Study

by Bishal · Published November 24, 2015 · Updated December 11, 2015

One of the popular known brands Nike, who manufacture sports and clothing, has more than 50,000 workers produces shoes through subcontractors. Most of their factories are located in Asian countries because of large non-employed population and low cost workers.

In 2005 Nike started disclosing their CSR activities after a couple of years of silence due to legal concerns. After several audits Nike reported that a large percentage of their overseas factories have their employees working in terrible environments for low pay and in unsanitary health conditions. This is the first time that a major corporation has revealed such problems to the public so honestly. Nike is now taking a new strategy and approach in an attempt to correct these problems. They are attempting to take responsibility to effect positive systematic changes in working conditions with several branches of their industry. Nike plans to reshape the way customers, supplies, investors, and regulators see the company. They are changing it from a closed system and making the company more open so that suppliers and customers can relate to Nike. One of Nike’s problems is changing the way its leadership and management style that is “leaders beyond borders” meaning leaders reach out to more than just their professional role and engage people on shared goals. Nike needs to reach out to wider issues of trade flows, governance, and media otherwise all their changes may not make a difference as they optimistically hope. Case Questions:

• Discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in their supply chains around the world.
• The apparel industry is possibly for the most part at risk to issues of social responsibility. The industry is still somewhat labor intensive and operates in a low wage environment. For example, in developing countries, apparel and sports manufacturers lack trained personal, information on CSR implementation and benefits and insufficient infrastructures for initiating CSR, but 25% to 50% of the factories in the South Asian region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the working day. The industry has a lot of contract manufacturing in which a foreign firm is contracted to do all the production for the firm owning the brand.

Extra working hours are also required to meet demands, which result in overtime and poor working conditions in developing countries, but the same percentage of factories in Asia denies workers at least one day off in seven. More than 60 hours per week and 25% of workers punished for refusing overtime work. All of this can lead to the problems we can see in this case.

• Discuss the meaning and implications of the statement by a Nike representative that “consumers are not rewarding us for investments in improved social performance in supply chains.”

– This statement suggests that those companies who invest their sources on “above-standard compliance” will be outperformed by those companied who are less concerned about compliance. Therefore, companies who concerns about compliance have to either reduce their profit margin or lose in market share if they charge extra for improved social performance. Nevertheless, it is not a good excuse for not doing the right thing. Although competitors may be engaging in unethical practices, and consumers may not care about the working conditions of foreign employees, it is still not a justification situation to engage in socially irresponsible actions. In the case of Nike, the company is not competing with the low end of the market, and one would assume that the premium pricing of the brand could allow for improvements in wages and working conditions. It should be pointed out that consumer perceptions and concerns can change and a firm can find it dealing with a successful PR campaign directed toward its practices. Consumer “rewarding” can change and make such companies vulnerable due to their foreign employment practices.

• What does it mean to have an industry open-systems approach to social responsibility? What parties are involved? Who are stakeholders?
• Open-system approach refers to the organization views its actions in terms of the effect it has on larger social system that’s not only concerning with internal part of companies such as employees, manager, material, equipment and production, and labors, but also all elements, which includes environment-such as competitor, suppliers, distributors and governmental regulator, as well as citizenship and its internal elements. Basically everyone is involved in this case, ranging from government, to company and even customers/buyers. Stakeholders are person with an interest or concern in business. In addition to being socially responsive to internal stakeholders such as domestic employees, the organization also views its impact on suppliers, investors, regulators and communities, regardless of their location.
• What is meant by “Leadership beyond borders”?

– Leadership beyond borders means that leadership moves beyond borders or barriers created by others. For example, leaders in the apparel industry would attempt to extend their influence beyond the company borders in order to deal with the CSR issues. Real life example could be Gandhi, who has given hopes, whose life and personality was enhanced in the process. This kind of leader is only little in existence. Transcendent leadership offers us a metaphor to help Nike move more closely to a world where human talents and energies will be maximized for the betterment of al – personally, organizationally, and globally (Gardiner, 2006).

• Is it possible to have “a compatibility of profits with people and planet”? Whose responsibility is it to achieve that state?

– Yes, it is possible to have “a compatibility of profits with people and planet”, but this is an idea of socialism and in some point it does not work. It’s everyone responsibility to care for each other and everything. It is a based of culture on corporation not competition with not just humans, but also everything that lives on the planet including other animals and resources. This is a social ideal ecosystem. Some people work hard toward the needs of others and the planet, while others will exploit. So it must be mixed with areas of competition in order to maintain a balance of cooperation with competition.

• Research Nike’s CSR actions since the time frame and why it has earned the reputation as one of the world’s foremost organizations in sustainability.

– When Nike adopted open-system approach, they had believed that the future of the company will be dependent on every element – internal and external. They believe that good society will bring good profitability and thus it would contribute to sustainability, Nike managed to create a green life cycle, were Nike has managed to eliminate waste in production and harmful substances, and ensure that all their products are recyclable and re-usable. Despite Nike’s efforts to take the lead in the apparel industry to form a Global Alliance to improve labor conditions, not only in its own factories and sub-contractors, but also among its competitors on the footwear and other apparel industries, incidents such as:

• Collapse in April 2013 of Rana building in Bangladesh, which housed a number of garment units, who were sub contractors to leading MNCs (Multinational corporations) collapsed, killing over a 1,000 people – mostly women and injuring seriously a few hundreds, keep happening.
• Early this year (2014) in the state of Tamilnadu in India, 7 workers died when they were cleaning a tank in a textile dyeing unit, KPR textiles, Perundurai, Erode district. They were exposed to toxic gases from chemicals used in dyeing.

Nike also took the lead in forming the Fair Labor Association (FLA). The awareness and the initiative taken by Nike has been acknowledged and appreciated by all the stakeholders in the industry, including customers. The operation council of the Global Alliance after detailed audit, has commended Nike for the processes introduced, not only in its own operations and among its subcontractors, but also in the rest of the industry.

References: Adidas Group. Sustainability History. Retrieved from: http://www.adidas-group.com/en/sustainability/managing-sustainability/sustainability-history/ International Institute for Sustainable Development (2013). Nike. From: http://www.iisd.org/business/viewcasestudy.aspx?id=81 Megha, G. (2012). Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Apparel Industry: An Exploration of Indian Manufacturers’ Perceptions. Recovered from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Gupta_uncg_0154D_11000.pdf The Bangladesh Factory Collapse: Why CSR is more important than ever http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/bangladesh-factory-collapse-csr-important CM condoles death of 7 workers in textile dyeing unit. From: http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/cm-condoles-death-of-7-workers-in-textile-dyeing-unit-114031900421_1.html Trapped in Textile. Retrieved from: http://newjurist.com/trapped-in-textile.html

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Corporate Social Responsibility: Case Study of Nike, Inc.

Essay, 2013, 5 pages, grade: a, michael watford (author).

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Nike Inc. was founded in 1964 by Bill and Phil as Blue Ribbon Sports. It is headquartered in Oregon, United States and operates on a global scale. The company is traded on NYSE and operates in apparel industry. Its segment markets include athletic footwear and apparel, sports equipment’s, and recreational products. With control of over 60% of the business Nike has become a pop culture and at the same time involved in corporate social responsibilities. Increase in market resulted to be marked as the advertisement of the year in 2003 while in 2004 its annual revenues exceeded $ 13 billion. Nike’s acquisitions include Starter and Umbro (NIKE, INC., 2013). Its subsidiaries include Hurley International and Converse Inc. with over 44,000 employees it made a revenue of US$ 24.128 billion and a net income of US$ 2.223 billion in the fiscal year 2012. In 2 fiscal year 2009 Nike reported a revenue of US$ 19.2 billion. Nike has offices are located over 45 countries. Nike sells products in over 180 countries. Nike Portfolio include top competitive brands which include: NIKE brand ( accessories, footwear, apparel, and equipment); Cole Haan (designs, distributes and markets handbags, luxury shoes, outwear and footwear); Converse ( athletic footwear, apparel and accessories); Hurley International LLC (action sports and youth lifestyle footwear, apparel and accessories); Umbro; Nike Golf; and Jordan brand providing similar products (Carbasho, 2010).

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Increasing number of studies supports the positive impact of corporate responsibility (CR) in long-term perspective and for securing sustainable performance (e.g. Freeman, 2000; McElhaney, 2008; Hollander, 2008), moreover several recent studies (see Carroll, 2010; Hansen and Reichwald, 2009; Googins et al., 2009) found that organisations which performed according to their principles and core values were significantly less influenced by the economic recession and were able to restore their business easier than those who cut corners or neglected ethics and / or responsibility in their activities. Therefore we can argue that corporate responsibility is a key to sustainable performance and helps organisations to survive and succeed through turbulent times. However it is suggested that corporate responsibilities activities are sustainable only when they are tightly linked to the core business goals (Schreck, 2009) and are lead strategically (e.g. Mele and Guillen, 2006). Jonker and de Witte (2006) maintain that although the roots of corporate responsibility are strong, the strategic approach is still relatively new. The discussion is illustrated with a brief overview of a study among Estonian organisations. The purpose of our study is to find out whether and how CR is related to strategic management, business objectives and leadership competences, and whether the responsible activities of an organisation correspond to the attributes of strategic corporate responsibility (SCR). The study is conducted among Estonian organisations who took part in Responsible Business Index (RBI) study in 2009 and 2010 (csr.ee homepage), research methods are combined, including analysis of the RBI questionnaires, the organisations’ home-pages, annual reports and personal conversations with organisations’ representatives.

Friedman (1970) argued that the responsibility of business managers is to only think about financial profits of the organization. The main purpose of writing this paper is to test the credibility of this statement in 21 st century. 21 st century is the century of globalization, businesses are going beyond domestic borders for getting more number of customers and channels of revenue. The product and service innovations are going on but those product and service innovations are not enough to get the attention of customers. The organizations are looking new way to outpace their competitors. In 21 st century it is hard for business managers to ignore the concept of corporate social responsibility. They can't outpace the competitors only by showing concern about financial profits. Especially the small and medium enterprises who are looking for making a place in the heart of customers, fulfilling corporate social responsibility is good option. Introduction In this paper the authors will check the emergence of corporate social responsibility in SMEs and large organizations. In the first part of the paper, the authors will test the concept of CSR and its growing emergence in globalized era. All the small, medium and large organizations are looking to increase their customer base in the market and gaining competitive advantage. Solely the product and service innovations can't be helpful in attracting the customers because pricing is also a concern while launching new innovation. CSR activities of the company are very helpful in retaining the old customers and attracting new customers towards the firm. The authors will also discuss few important theories which will be helpful in understanding the concept of corporate social responsibility. These important theories are stakeholder management theory, social capital theory and glimpse of triple bottom line approach followed by the managers. The theoretical debate will be entirely based on the need of corporate social responsibility in small and medium level organizations.

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Introduction, factories and workers, athletes as role models (armtour), reuse-a-shoe, company profile, nike responsibility.

This Case Study will profile the approach that Nike - the world's market leader in the design, marketing and distribution of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories - has taken to address and promote the issue of corporate responsibility, through a range of targeted programs and priorities. As a result of reading this Case Study, the student should be able to:

• Understand that it makes good business practice for a business to be at the forefront of developing corporate responsibility programs
• Analyse the benefits for a range of stakeholders in a business that promotes high standards of corporate responsibility 
• Explain different strategies that can be used by a business to promote corporate responsibility.

Corporate ethical and social responsibility is an issue that has attracted much attention over recent years.

Independent contract manufacturers produce almost all of Nike's products, meaning that the factories manufacturing Nike branded products are owned and operated by outside suppliers.

The ARMTour program, sponsored by Nike, is a unique and successful program that encourages indigenous children to live healthier lives.

Community standards have changed over the last decade with consumers and other societal groups expecting companies to have a more positive environmental impact on the communities in which they operate.

There is much concern about growing levels of physical inactivity amongst children, which is contributing to more and more children being overweight around the world.

Nike had humble beginnings in 1962 under the name of Blue Ribbon Sports.

Nike is a high-profile world leader in the design, marketing and distribution of sporting footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories.

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