Nike And International Labor Practices

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Business

 

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Barbara K

 

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May 25, 2011

 

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University

 

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Nike was headed to the top rung of the athletic shoe industry until it hit trouble in the 1990s with news leaking out about labor violations in its factories overseas. Executive Summary Nike’s company strategy is a clever one. One that founder Phil Knight thought of while still in school at Stanford...
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Instead of paying Americans to put together Nike’s shoes, Knight thought that it would be a better idea to take manufacturing plants overseas to places where labor is much cheaper than in the U.S., places like Taiwan and South Korea. With 86% of its products being produced in one of those two countries and Nike employing a large number of people who lived there, the countries became richer and richer until Knight decided prices were too high to manufacture there anymore (Hitting the Wall, 3)...
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