Sustainable or responsible supply chain management (RSCM) emerged in the 1990s as an important part of the corporate responsibility (or corporate social responsibility - CSR) discourse...Over the past two decades, leading corporations have increasingly recognised human rights risks in suppliers’ operations...Current research...suggests that despite greater attention to addressing supply chain challenges, existing approaches suffer from significant shortcomings and may indeed create a barrier to sustainable economic development. GLOBAL CSR is proposing a new model to address RSCM in a sustainable manner; what we call Responsible Supply Chain Management generation 3 (RSCM 3.0). [Refers to Bureau Veritas, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young, IKEA, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wal-Mart]