Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations
Issues: The issues Swedwood asked us to explore in their Eastern European timber purchasing organizations were: Have clear directives been given to each purchasing unit regarding the purpose and scope of its activities? If so, what do these directives contain? If so, how are these directiv...
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SLU/Dept. of Forest Products
2008
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| author | Norberg, Daniel Gustafsson, Emil |
| author_browse | Gustafsson, Emil Norberg, Daniel |
| author_facet | Norberg, Daniel Gustafsson, Emil |
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| collection | Epsilon Archive for Student Projects |
| description | Issues: The issues Swedwood asked us to explore in their Eastern European timber purchasing organizations were:
Have clear directives been given to each purchasing unit regarding the purpose and scope of its activities?
If so, what do these directives contain?
If so, how are these directives followed?
How are purchasing transactions planned and carried out?
What roles are involved in the purchasing process, and what are the responsibilities and authorities of each role?
Can the purchasing process, or parts of the process, be improved?
Can the company organize its purchasing units more effectively to ensure best practices?
Purpose: The overall approach we took was to assess Swedwood's potential exposure to low levels of legal or ethical practices by benchmarking its actual practices, using the concept of best purchasing practices described in the literature.
Method: To collected data using qualitative methods, since this is an appropriate way of raising the sensitive issues that needed to be addressed. This involved interviewing local purchasing organisations about their local market conditions, organisational structure and purchasing processes.
Conclusion: The study has shown that organisations' purchasing managers are exposed to considerable risks of low levels of ethical practices. While most local organisations have policies to prevent corruption, there is rarely a working manual to provide people with guidelines to achieve this. Support for ethical practices could probably be improved. |
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| spelling | RepoSLU120972017-11-08T07:40:28Z Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations Norberg, Daniel Gustafsson, Emil corruption purchasing forestry organization timber Issues: The issues Swedwood asked us to explore in their Eastern European timber purchasing organizations were: Have clear directives been given to each purchasing unit regarding the purpose and scope of its activities? If so, what do these directives contain? If so, how are these directives followed? How are purchasing transactions planned and carried out? What roles are involved in the purchasing process, and what are the responsibilities and authorities of each role? Can the purchasing process, or parts of the process, be improved? Can the company organize its purchasing units more effectively to ensure best practices? Purpose: The overall approach we took was to assess Swedwood's potential exposure to low levels of legal or ethical practices by benchmarking its actual practices, using the concept of best purchasing practices described in the literature. Method: To collected data using qualitative methods, since this is an appropriate way of raising the sensitive issues that needed to be addressed. This involved interviewing local purchasing organisations about their local market conditions, organisational structure and purchasing processes. Conclusion: The study has shown that organisations' purchasing managers are exposed to considerable risks of low levels of ethical practices. While most local organisations have policies to prevent corruption, there is rarely a working manual to provide people with guidelines to achieve this. Support for ethical practices could probably be improved. Swedwood är ett dotterbolag till IKEA som grundades 1991. Deras huvuduppgift är att säkra produktionskapacitet på trämöbler där IKEA haft svårigheter att anskaffa rätt produkter till rätt pris. Deras anläggningar består av sågverk, träkomponent- ochm öbelfabriker. Många av de länder Swedwood investerar i är i Transparency Internationals Corruption index lågt rankade, och företaget är därför oroat över dess utsatthet i inköpsarbetet. Riskerna är alltid större då stora summor är inblandade, och timmerinköp är ett sådant område. Syftet med denna studie var att kartlägga företagets organisation och arbetsrutinerna vid timmerinköp i 6 Östeuropeiska länder. Målet är att därigenom fastställa den potentiella utsattheten och vad man kan förbättra. Vår litteraturstudie innefattar såväl konventionell inköpsteori som organisationsteori och inköpsetik. Genom att använda teorin som referensram belyste vi i analysen den potentiella organisatoriska risken vid varje enhet. Vi har använt oss av en kvalitativ forskningsansats vid insamlandet av data. I diskussionen berörs de huvudsakliga problemen som är: vikten av en tydlig policy, problematiken med organisationsutformningen, samt insyn och transparens. Genom att belysa empirin med litteraturen, föreslår vi rekommendationer för organisationsstruktur och arbetsutförande vilket syftar till att reducera riskerna och företagets utsatthet. Förslagen innefattar skapandet av en inköpsmanual, regelbunden träning inom etik och idéer för att höja den organisatoriska förmågan att lära i etiska och säkerhetsmässiga frågor. Vår slutsats är att policys för inköp, mätning, samt arbetsinstruktioner för dessa områden kan förstärkas. Riktlinjer är viktiga som målsättning och som referens i organisationer. Lika viktigt är att budskapet når ut. Vi fann att det fanns risker i inköpsorganisationen. Vi drar också slutsatsen att lösningen och problematiken är en kombination av metodik, teknik och kultur. SLU/Dept. of Forest Products 2008 L3 eng swe https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/12097/ |
| spellingShingle | corruption purchasing forestry organization timber Norberg, Daniel Gustafsson, Emil Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title | Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title_full | Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title_fullStr | Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title_short | Organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in Eastern European timber purchasing organizations |
| title_sort | organizational exposure to risk of unethical behaviour : in eastern european timber purchasing organizations |
| topic | corruption purchasing forestry organization timber |