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No-size-fits-all: collaborative governance as an alternative for addressing labour issues in global supply chains
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posted on 2019-06-07, 12:46 authored by Sun Lee, Kamel Mellahi, Michael Mol, Vijay PereiraLabour issues in global supply chains have been a thorny problem for both buyer firms and their suppliers. Research initially focused mostly on the bilateral relationship between buyer firms and suppliers, looking at arm’s-length and close collaboration modes, and the associated mechanisms of coercion and cooperation. Yet continuing problems in the global supply chain suggest that neither governance type offers a comprehensive solution to the problem. This study investigates collaborative governance, an alternative governance type that is driven by buyer firms setting up a coalition with competitor firms in order to increase leverage and address the supplier and/or host country specific labour issues. Based on interviews with managers involved in the establishment and management of such coalitions and supplier firms in the garment industry, we examine the rationale behind collaborative governance and discuss its opportunities and challenges in addressing labour issues in global supply chains.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
Journal of Business EthicsVolume
162Issue
2Pages
291 - 305Citation
LEE, S.H. ... et al., 2019. No-size-fits-all: collaborative governance as an alternative for addressing labour issues in global supply chains. Journal of Business Ethics, 162 (2), pp.291-305.Publisher
Springer VerlagVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2019-05-23Publication date
2019-06-18ISSN
0167-4544Publisher version
Language
- en