The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain

Clarke, Thomas; Boersma, Martijn

doi:10.1007/s10551-015-2781-3

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“…Literature on GVCs and GPNs has long focused on questions of governance to locate and understand power and authority in global supply chains, reflecting the frameworks' World Systems Theory and Global Commodity Chain (GCC) theoretical underpinnings (Gereffi et al, 2005;Selwyn, 2012;Werner, 2016). Most versions of these frameworks prioritise the influence of firms as the key buyers, drivers and coordinators of the global economy (Selwyn, 2012;Smith, 2015).…”

Section: Social Responsibilitymentioning

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“…(Interview, 26 September 2011) This reinforces the case that in a neoliberal economy regulated by private-interest standards, resource for social responsibility around labour conditions tends to follow areas of greatest reputational risk and highest public profile. In the realm of corporate sourcing of consumer goods, ethical trade tends to be most advanced for products most strongly connected to consumer tastes and identity, such as food and fashion items, which are also purchased predominantly through buyer-driven supply chains where market strength is linked to high-profile brands (Gereffi et al, 2005;Hughes et al, 2008). Ethical trade has arguably less traction in producer-driven sectors, such as pharmaceuticals, where consumer mobilisation around manufacturers' ethical reputations is weaker, though more research is needed to explore this.…”

Section: Ethical Interventions In Uk Public Sector Procurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains

Hughes

Morrison

Ruwanpura

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper places a critical spotlight on the ways in which governance and social responsibility concerning labour standards work in the context of public sector procurement. Supply chains provisioning the public sector, incorporating a vast array of materials used in public services such as education, health, social housing and transportation, have been under‐researched and under‐theorised in the geographical and wider social science literature on Global Production Networks, Global Value Chains and consumption ethics. Against this backdrop, the paper evaluates the emergence of ethical trading programmes involving labour standards in UK public sector sourcing, drawing on examples from the health, higher education, construction and transportation sectors and a methodology combining interviews with participant observation. Findings show that ethical public procurement is shaped, and often constrained, by: the relatively low profile of many materials used in public services, which challenge effective campaigning and advocacy work; the consequent limits to reputational risk for state departments and first‐tier suppliers if labour issues are encountered in their supply chains; and the significant role of EU and UK procurement law, which until 2014 rendered social responsibility in public sector sourcing a legal risk to specify. Through a practice‐orientated approach and adopting the notion of responsibilisation inspired by governmentality perspectives, the paper grasps how these challenges for ethical public procurement are encountered and negotiated by procurement managers and those influencing them in a neoliberal environment. It is shown that ethical sourcing is significantly less advanced in the UK public sector than it is in consumer goods sectors, with implications for social justice in a whole realm of under‐researched global supply chains.

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Section: Social Responsibilitymentioning

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Section: Ethical Interventions In Uk Public Sector Procurementmentioning

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Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains

Hughes

Morrison

Ruwanpura

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Consumers and other stakeholders are more concerned than ever before about the origins of the products they use and how different parts and components are sourced. Deadly fires in Nike's subcontractor facilities in Bangladesh (Hemphill & White III, ), worker suicides at Foxconn (Clarke & Boersma, ), and ethical issues in the sourcing of rare earth minerals (Abraham, ) are some events that triggered serious debates and raised concerns from consumers as well as governments for ethical practices, transparency, and traceability in global supply chains. While these problems are multifaceted, questions arise regarding whether the current supply chain systems can support a timely provenance of goods and services in a socially responsible way.…”

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Is your supply chain ready to embrace blockchain?

Bajwa

Prewett

Shavers

2019

J Corp Accounting Finance

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“…We further limit our research to studies that explicitly consider poverty in their design, meaning that studies focusing on important factors that are related to poverty, such as child labor (e.g., LundThomsen & Nadvi, 2010), pollution and environmental degradation (e.g., Maung, Wilson, & Tang, 2016), or human rights (e.g., Clarke & Boersma, 2017) are not included, unless they concentrate explicitly on poverty (e.g., . Finally, the more recent stream of research on poverty alleviation in developed countries is neither considered here, as not only the country context but also the type of poverty typically involved, i.e., relative poverty (Ravallion & Chen, 2009), differ significantly from our focus.…”

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Multinationals, international business, and poverty: A cross-disciplinary research overview and conceptual framework

2018

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This article examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis of articles in the top journals in business, economics, and policy. We develop a conceptual cross-disciplinary framework that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty, moderated by country and industry effects. While our study suggests that the impact of all the types of business activities on poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps in this cross-disciplinary stream of literature. A distinction is made between firm effects as part of both 'mainstream' and 'responsible' globalization, and firmspecific activities with and without the explicit goal of poverty alleviation, considering investment and trade. We propose areas for further research based on the framework, including the importance of interaction effects and contextual factors.

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The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain

Cited by 199 publications

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Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains

Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains

Is your supply chain ready to embrace blockchain?

Multinationals, international business, and poverty: A cross-disciplinary research overview and conceptual framework

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