“…By and large, however, the existing literature that concerns labor in GSCs focuses mainly on measuring the efficacy of existing (primarily private) labor regulatory schemes (e.g., Lee et al, 2017;Locke, 2013;Lund-Thomsen & Lindgreen, 2014) and on empirical investigations of key factors shaping labor conditions. Such analyses tend to focus on inter-firm power dynamics or buyer-supplier relationship (e.g., Gereffi, 2004Gereffi, , 2018Lakhani et al, 2013;Bartley & Egels-Zandén, 2015;Barrientos, 2013) or on the sociopolitical, legal, economic, and cultural contexts within which global production networks are embedded (Coe & Yeung, 2018;Coe et al, 2008;D'Cruz et al, 2021;Levy, 2008).…”