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NSGA-II and TOPSIS for a Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Ecological Considerations (2024)
Book Chapter
Petrovic, S., Jubaer Islam, K., & Trautrims, A. (2024). NSGA-II and TOPSIS for a Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Ecological Considerations. In F. Hamid (Ed.), Optimization Essentials : Theory, Tools, and Applications (721-750). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5491-9_24

Reducing CO2 emissions in transport and logistics is currently a goal of utmost importance in vehicle routing. Environmental awareness has grown in recent years, and organizations are more willing to consider sustainability in their decision-making a... Read More about NSGA-II and TOPSIS for a Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Ecological Considerations.

Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain (2024)
Journal Article
Brown, J. A., Hughes, A., Bhutta, M. F., Trautrims, A., & Trueba, M. L. (2024). Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294241272190

Drawing on research into medical gloves global value chains (GVCs), this article examines the interacting roles that states differently positioned in GVCs have played in preventing and eliminating forced labour. Our case study, based on a worker surv... Read More about Synergistic state governance of labour standards in global value chains: Forced labour in the Malaysia–Nepal–UK medical gloves supply chain.

Recruitment Deception and the Organization of Labor for Exploitation: A Policy–Theory Synthesis (2023)
Journal Article
Fletcher, D., & Trautrims, A. (2024). Recruitment Deception and the Organization of Labor for Exploitation: A Policy–Theory Synthesis. Academy of Management Perspectives, 38(1), 43-76. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2022.0043

Responding to policy initiatives on fair recruitment and the eradication of recruitment fees, and research calls to focus on the labor supply chain, this article provides a synthesis of scholarly and policy work on the issue of recruitment deception... Read More about Recruitment Deception and the Organization of Labor for Exploitation: A Policy–Theory Synthesis.

Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains (2023)
Journal Article
Kunz, N., Chesney, T., Trautrims, A., & Gold, S. (2023). Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains. International Journal of Production Economics, 258, Article 108809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108809

More than 50 million people in the world are estimated to be in a situation of modern slavery, the most extreme form of labour exploitation. Many of them are working in sectors such as mining and agriculture, which produce price-sensitive commodity p... Read More about Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains.

Ethical leadership supports safety voice by increasing risk perception and reducing ethical ambiguity: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
Journal Article
Cakir, M. S., Wardman, J. K., & Trautrims, A. (2023). Ethical leadership supports safety voice by increasing risk perception and reducing ethical ambiguity: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk Analysis, 43(9), 1902-1916. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14053

Misconduct by business and political leaders during the pandemic is feared to have impacted people's adherence to protective measures that would help to safeguard against the spread of COVID-19. Addressing this concern, this article theorizes and tes... Read More about Ethical leadership supports safety voice by increasing risk perception and reducing ethical ambiguity: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis (2022)
Journal Article
Hughes, A., Brown, J. A., Trueba, M., Trautrims, A., Bostock, B., Day, E., Hurst, R., & Bhutta, M. F. (2023). Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis. Global Networks, 23(1), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12360

This paper evaluates ways in which labour issues in global value chains for medical gloves have been affected by, and addressed through, the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on production in Malaysia and supply to the United Kingdom's National Health Se... Read More about Global value chains for medical gloves during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Confronting forced labour through public procurement and crisis.

Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation (2021)
Journal Article
Gutierrez-Huerter, G., Gold, S., & Trautrims, A. (2023). Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), 35-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-05013-w

This article shows how the ethical framing of the contemporary issue of modern slavery has evolved in UK construction, a sector in which there is a high risk of labor exploitation. It also examines how these framing dynamics have inhibited the emerge... Read More about Change in rhetoric but not in action? Framing of the ethical issue of modern slavery in a UK sector at high risk of labor exploitation.

Adaptations to first-tier suppliers’ relational anti-slavery capabilities (2021)
Journal Article
Emberson, C., Pinheiro, S. M., & Trautrims, A. (2022). Adaptations to first-tier suppliers’ relational anti-slavery capabilities. Supply Chain Management, 27(4), 575-593. https://doi.org/10.1108/SCM-10-2020-0505

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how first-tier suppliers in multi-tier supply chains adapt their vertical and horizontal relationships to reduce the risk of slavery-like practices.

Design/methodology/approach
Using Archer’s morph... Read More about Adaptations to first-tier suppliers’ relational anti-slavery capabilities.

Modern slavery risk assessment (2021)
Journal Article
Gold, S., Gutierrez-Huerter O, G., & Trautrims, A. (2021). Modern slavery risk assessment. Nature Food, 2(9), 644-645. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00348-z

Agrifood supply chains have high risks of labor exploitation. with aAround two million people working under conditions of modern slavery and forced labor – as the most extreme end of the labor exploitation continuum – in this sector worldwide (ILO an... Read More about Modern slavery risk assessment.

A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions (2021)
Journal Article
Kougkoulos, I., Cakir, M. S., Kunz, N., Boyd, D. S., Trautrims, A., Hatzinikolaou, K., & Gold, S. (2021). A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions. Production and Operations Management, 30(12), 4396-4411. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13496

Recent estimates suggest that more than 40 million people worldwide are in situations of modern slavery and other forms of labor exploitation. UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.7 addresses this problem and urges stakeholders to take effective measure... Read More about A Multi-Method Approach to Prioritize Locations of Labor Exploitation for Ground-Based Interventions.