MGM102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Rio Declaration On Environment And Development, Iway, Internal Audit
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Ikea case study: ikea"s global sourcing challenge: indian rugs and child labour. Kaisa mattson, the head of ikea"s compliance office in south asia, mattson was facing the decision of whether to terminate a relationship with a long-standing major supplier. This one violated not one but several items in ikea"s detailed code of conduct, known as. Mattson"s immediate instinct was to cancel the contract. As barner reflected on the problem, her mind began drifting to a much broader issue. In 1994, when ikea was first confronted with accusations that some of its rugs may have been manufactured using child labor, with input from the international labor. The first big test of the revised contract came in may 1995 when a german tv program broadcast an investigative report that named rangan exports, a major supplier of rugs to. Ikea, as an employer of child labor and called for ikea to act.
