Ethics and Governance in Supply Chain Management for Economic Development

Abstract

Supply chain management is experiencing lack of direction, poor coordination and unfair competition, transparency and accountability as well as fraud in the public sector, consequently lack of qualified supply chain management specialists to perform and carry out supply chains activities competently, at the right time and cost-effectively has negatively affected the performance of supply chain in the public institutions. In addition to inflexible and bureaucratic delays, increased and exaggerated costs, as well as irregular procurement activities in public institutions, create a loophole to fraud public resources