Ethical consumerism has led manufacturers and retailers to develop new initiatives to align their products and services with related requirements, such as the management of supply chains for ethically produced products. To this end, recent years have witnessed the growing reliance on technological innovations to corroborate claims on ethically produced products. RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification)-based systems have found a natural fit for such applications due to their ability to uniquely identify individual items and locally store their characteristics and history. While the benefits of such a setup are clear, there is a paucity of research on associated unethical risks. What is often unclear is the possibility of deception when RFID-generated information is used to certify ethical production. We draw on stockholder theory, stakeholder theory, social contract theory, and Mason’s information ethics theory to study the underlying dynamics. We show that enhancing RFID information accessibility and accuracy in supply chains is key to mitigating the unethical risk of deception and ensuring that RFID-based systems can truly certify ethically produced products. We develop a portfolio of such risks, identify means to mitigate identified risks, and then use a case study to examine the impact of varying degrees of RFID-generated information accessibility and accuracy on the detection and prevention of associated deceptions.

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道德消费主义、供应链和基于 RFID 的系统的欺骗


道德消费主义促使制造商和零售商制定新举措，使其产品和服务符合相关要求，例如管理道德生产产品的供应链。为此，近年来人们越来越依赖技术创新来证实道德生产产品的主张。基于 RFID（射频识别）的系统非常适合此类应用，因为它们能够唯一地识别单个物品并在本地存储其特征和历史记录。虽然这种设置的好处是显而易见的，但对相关不道德风险的研究却很少。人们常常不清楚的是，当使用 RFID 生成的信息来证明道德生产时，是否存在欺骗的可能性。我们利用股东理论、利益相关者理论、社会契约理论和梅森的信息伦理理论来研究潜在的动态。我们表明，提高供应链中 RFID 信息的可访问性和准确性是减轻不道德欺骗风险并确保基于 RFID 的系统能够真正认证合乎道德生产的产品的关键。我们开发了此类风险的组合，确定了减轻已识别风险的方法，然后使用案例研究来检查不同程度的 RFID 生成的信息可访问性和准确性对检测和预防相关欺骗的影响。