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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

To examine this possibility, I conducted research on recent developments in Nike Inc’s apparel supply chain with Jens Hainmueller of Stanford University and Richard M. However, our research suggests that outsourcing production is not inexorably tied to poor workplace conditions. Sponsored by Accenture.

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In Defense of Responsible Offshoring and Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital. In the State of the Union , President Obama declaimed: "No, we will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing." A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. Use of Revenues and Margins.