None of your business
29 August 2012
Organisations have no business taking on corporate social responsibility, and their purchasing operations will lose credibility if they pursue this line, argues Bill Young
Before it gets completely out of hand, somebody has to shout that the emperor has no clothes.
It’s gone far enough. “Corporate social responsibility” is a nonsense.
The role of purchasing is to get the best value for the company, partnership, or public-service organisation. It is not to save the world. And if some procurement people are determined to...