Supply Chain Responsibility of 5 Mobile Phone Companies

This briefing will include a follow up on the ‘High Cost of Calling: Critical Issues in the Mobile Phone Industry’ report4, with the focus mainly on sourcing policies and practices and supply chain responsibility of the major brand companies.

The 2006 SOMO report on the mobile phone industry showed that there is a stark contrast between the image of the flashy high-tech world of mobile phones and the working conditions of the people behind the production of wireless handsets in low-wage countries.

How has corporate social responsibility developed in the mobile phone industry in recent years and are social and environmental standards improving as fast as the product applications?

 

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