scholarly journals Shared Responsibility and Labor Rights in Global Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossi Dahan ◽  
Hanna Lerner ◽  
Faina Milman-Sivan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Supply Chains

Comment on Sonja Dänzer. Structural Injustice in Global Production Networks: Shared Responsibility for Working Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Starmanns
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Structural Injustice ◽  
Discursive Approach

AbstractThis commentary's claim is that Dänzer's argument does not sufficiently take into account the complexities of the global production of goods, the current corporate responsibility practices and the problems of attributing responsibility to single actors. I argue in favour of a shared responsibility and briefly present a discursive approach for attributing MNE's share of responsibility in global supply chains, which requires obligatory transparency.

Socially responsible global supply chains

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Hemphill ◽  
Keith J. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Building Safety ◽  
Rights Issue ◽  
Rights Issues

Purpose This paper aims to address the viability of two recent initiatives proposed to address the important human rights issue of employee and building safety among manufacturers in the global supply chain: the recently proposed “Shared Responsibility Paradigm” now being considered by concerned stakeholders as a new approach to understanding human rights issues across global supply chains and the proposed International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 45001 comprehensive framework for management systems addressing occupational health and safety. Design/methodology/approach First, the paper establishes a theoretical foundation for these two initiatives as practical and implementable solutions for this human rights issue and includes a section addressing the results of recent academic research on social responsibility in global supply chains. The paper then provides a detailed description of the shared responsibility paradigm and the ISO 45001 health and safety standard, respectively, followed by a discussion of their viability, policy implications and directions for future research. Findings Recent developments pertaining to the implementation of the ISO 45001 standard and the unveiling of the World Economic Forum’s shared responsibility model offer aspirational hope for a multi-stakeholder solution to successfully addressing serious human rights issues related to employee safety in Bangladesh and other least developed countries. Originality/value This paper offers an early viability assessment of the two recent initiatives proposed to address the important human rights issue of employee and building safety among manufacturers in the global supply chain: the “Shared Responsibility Paradigm” and the proposed ISO 45001 standard for worker health and safety.

scholarly journals Companies’ contribution to sustainability through global supply chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (9) ◽  
pp. 2072-2077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tannis Thorlakson ◽  
Joann F. de Zegher ◽  
Eric F. Lambin
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sustainability Challenges ◽  
Sustainable Sourcing

Global supply chains play a critical role in many of the most pressing environmental stresses and social struggles identified by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Responding to calls from the global community, companies are adopting a variety of voluntary practices to improve the environmental and/or social management of their suppliers’ activities. We develop a global survey of 449 publicly listed companies in the food, textile, and wood-products sectors with annual reports in English to provide insight into how the private sector contributes to advancing the SDGs via such sustainable-sourcing practices. We find that while 52% of companies use at least one sustainable-sourcing practice, these practices are limited in scope; 71% relates to only one or a few input materials and 60.5% apply to only first-tier suppliers. We also find that sustainable-sourcing practices typically address a small subset of the sustainability challenges laid out by the SDGs, primarily focusing on labor rights and compliance with national laws. Consistent with existing hypotheses, companies that face consumer and civil society pressure are associated with a significantly higher probability of adopting sustainable-sourcing practices. Our findings highlight the opportunities and limitations of corporate sustainable-sourcing practices in addressing the myriad sustainability challenges facing our world today.

Labor Rights Violation in Global Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nizar Shbikat
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Stakeholder Approach ◽  
Labour Rights ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

This book adopts a multi-stakeholder approach to exploring the issue of labour rights in global supply chains in three dimensions. It starts by addressing the potential causes of labour rights violations and visualising them using fishbone diagrams to show how these causes interrelate. The book proceeds by proposing a novel worker participatory approach for measuring these violations by considering workers as experiencers and observers of them. It then discusses how workers and their representatives can eradicate rights violations and advance workers’ interests in a contested environment by examining three case studies from China, Bangladesh and Jordan.

Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining in Global Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-180
Author(s):  
Matt Fischer-Daly ◽  
Christopher Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
Private Regulation ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

This chapter addresses freedom of association (FOA) and collective bargaining (CB) in global supply chains. FOA and CB rights are internationally recognized as core and fundamental human rights of global citizens. Thus, in 1998 when the International Labour Organization recast its objectives to promote “decent work,” FOA and CB were among the “core labor rights,” along with the freedom from child and forced labor and freedom from discrimination. The chapter uses diverse datasets from brands, auditing firms, multi stakeholder institutions (MSIs), and Better Work to assess FOA and CB in the global apparel industry and substantiate the arguments. The breadth of the data permits systematic and comprehensive analysis of the incidence and nature of FOA violations and the influence of FOA and CB on overall labor standards in the industry. FOA and CB show great promise for improving compliance with codes of conduct overall — the expressed goal of private regulation — but FOA and CB are the least supported rights in current private regulation efforts. In other words, most companies with private regulation programs are eschewing the very rights that could potentially improve the functioning of their private regulation programs.

Governing Global Supply Chains: What We Know (and Don't) About Improving Labor Rights and Working Conditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Berliner ◽  
Anne Regan Greenleaf ◽  
Milli Lake ◽  
Margaret Levi ◽  
Jennifer Noveck
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Supply Chains

scholarly journals Labor Rights in the Age of Global Supply Chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 116 (786) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Layna Mosley
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Global Supply Chains

[C]hanging the incentives for governments in developing countries is probably necessary—albeit not sufficient—to achieve sustained improvements for workers.

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