The FairWear Campaign: An Ethical Network in the Australian Garment Industry

Burchielli, Rosaria; Delaney, Annie; Tate, Jane; Coventry, Kylie

doi:10.1007/s10551-010-0593-z

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“…Typically, research on reporting and labelling sustainability in the apparel industry is dedicated to a focal company's CSR operations to disclose and inform external stakeholders. Hence, it is intended to mitigate risks by enabling transparency, accountability and credibility, but also to educate customers and increase awareness [13,26,[66][67][68][74][75][76][77]. Nevertheless, studies that deal with the evaluation of apparel companies' reports are helpful to learn about the internal use of reports [13,78].…”

Section: Social Management Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sustainability in Apparel Supply Chains—The Role of the Sourcing Intermediary in a Developing Country

2018

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After considering significant literature on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM), it is evident that research has neglected the social dimension and still lacks in highlighting the role of sourcing intermediaries in supply chains. The apparel supply chain has increased enormously in length and complexity, driving apparel retailers to employ sourcing intermediaries who manage their sourcing activities with suppliers from developing countries overseas. Thus, the purpose of this study is to enrich existing findings on SSCM by exploring the management of social sustainability when sourcing intermediaries are in between the focal company and the respective developing country factories. More specifically, this study aims to understand the role of apparel sourcing intermediaries for the implementation of social management strategies based on the perception of multiple supply chain actors. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews conducted in Vietnam and Europe. Ultimately ten propositions are presented, all explicitly concentrating on the apparel intermediary's role as a significant enabler for social sustainability in apparel supply chains. The roles are social sustainability, supplier developer and coordinator, gatekeeper and safeguard, cultural broker, and social risk manager. The social sustainability roles assumed by the apparel sourcing intermediary offer great opportunities to both apparel retailers and developing country factories.

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Section: Social Management Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Sustainability in Apparel Supply Chains—The Role of the Sourcing Intermediary in a Developing Country

2018

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“…This reduces the capacity of governments to monitor human rights violations (Diviney 2007;Diviney and Lillywhite 2007;Hale and Shaw 2001;Weller 2007b). Meanwhile, non-government organisations (NGOs) fill in the regulatory gaps and try to create transparency and accountability in relation to human rights in the supply chain (Burchielli et al 2009).…”

Section: Background: Australian Clothing and Retail Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Australian corporations partly rely on home‐based ‘out‐worker' subcontractors (Weller ), as well as subcontractors in developing countries (Diviney and Lillywhite ). There is a concern that home‐based workers and foreign workers at the supply factories are not subject to appropriate conditions of employment, even though domestic employees' conditions are overseen by the voluntary ‘Home workers code of practice' (Burchielli et al ; Diviney and Lillywhite ). In Australia, home‐based out‐workers comprise 40% of those employed in the textile, clothing and footwear category (Diviney and Lillywhite ).…”

Section: Background: Australian Clothing and Retail Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Human Rights Reporting: A Study of Australian Garment and Retail Companies

Islam

Jain

2013

Australian Accounting Review

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The opening of the Australian economy in a globalised world has led to Australian garment and retail corporations moving their manufacturing overseas and acquiring goods from overseas providers. This is usually better for the corporations’ bottom‐line, as they can purchase goods overseas at a fraction of their local cost, partly due to cheap labour. Australia is one of the many OECD countries not to have a well regulated environment for workplace human rights. This study examines 18 major Australian retail and garment manufacturing corporations and finds that workplace human rights reporting is poor, based on content analysis of their annual reports, corporate social responsibility reports and websites. This is probably due to the failure of the Australian Government to provide adequate oversight by promulgating mandatory reporting standards for both local and overseas operations of Australian companies. This permits corporations to avoid reporting their workplace human rights standards and breaches.

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“…To reiterate, effectiveness is considered as "level of outcomes" [2] (p. 5) and, in our study, we applied precisely, the exit from homelessness, in particular from the perspective of social welfare centers. Another interesting approach was used by Burchielli et al [67], who applying the notion of an ethical network defined as "collaboration of interconnected stakeholders with direct and indirect links" to an organization that "through combined activities and mechanisms, effect ethical [ . .…”

Section: Collaborative Network Performance and Trustmentioning

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Interorganizational Trust and Effectiveness Perception in a Collaborative Service Delivery Network

2019

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This study presents the determinants of trust in light of the scientific literature on trust and governance networks. The theoretical analysis focuses on differentiation of various types of trust and its determinants at both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Moreover, the idea of a network is presented with the main attention given to the performance of collaborative service delivery networks. On the basis of theoretical study, a longitudinal analysis was performed at institutions providing services to the homeless people in Warsaw, Poland. During the periods of 2013 and 2017 to 2018, two cohorts of field questionnaire studies were conducted among employees of 18 social welfare centers (sample based on 18 Warsaw districts) and homeless shelters run by nonprofit organizations (samples of 19 and 22, respectively). These local government institutions and nonprofit organizations comprised the collaborative service delivery network under study. Mixed-method research was applied at welfare centers and nonprofit organizations (NGOs) where both frontline and management level employees were interviewed, and some data were statistically evaluated. The research was conducted using the same questionnaires at both points in time. The research showed that, from the perspective of social welfare centers, interorganizational trust in relation to other social welfare centers and to nonprofit organizations is positively correlated with perceived interorganizational effectiveness of other actors in the network (measured by the possibility of obtaining information, promptness, commitment, completeness and correctness of documents, and assessment of employees’ knowledge). The same results were obtained from the perspective of NGOs. In addition, these correlations remained almost unchanged over time, although the research was repeated after many years using the same variables. Finally, there is no basis to state that trust is correlated with outcome perception when considering the most difficult and complex social services.

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The FairWear Campaign: An Ethical Network in the Australian Garment Industry

Abstract: homework, informal employment, corporate social responsibility, ethical networks, supply chains,

Cited by 31 publications

References 35 publications

Social Sustainability in Apparel Supply Chains—The Role of the Sourcing Intermediary in a Developing Country

Social Sustainability in Apparel Supply Chains—The Role of the Sourcing Intermediary in a Developing Country

Workplace Human Rights Reporting: A Study of Australian Garment and Retail Companies

Interorganizational Trust and Effectiveness Perception in a Collaborative Service Delivery Network

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