Responsible sourcing practices in hazelnut industry
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Companies may play an important role to guarantee the supply of their basic raw materials and hereby to support sustainability. The aim of this study is to investigate the companies’ responsible sourcing practices in hazelnut industry in Turkey. Turkey is the world’s leading producer and exporter of hazelnuts, accounting for around 75% of the world’s supply. Survey, interview and analysis of secondary data method were used together. Responsible sourcing practices of companies were analysed into two parts as assessment and collaboration. Besides, under-age workers on hazelnut production are one of the major problems that companies have to struggle to prevent it in the context of responsible sourcing.
Keywords: Responsible sourcing, hazelnut, Turkey.
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The Global Journal of Business Economics and Management: Current Issues is an open-access journal. The copyright holder is the author or authors. Licensee: Birlesik Dunya Yenilik Arastirma ve Yayincilik Merkezi, North Nicosia, Cyprus. All articles can be downloaded free of charge. Articles published in the Journal are Open-Access articles distributed under the CC-BY license [Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)].