All Outputs (24)

Recruitment Deception and the Organization of Labor for Exploitation: A Policy–Theory Synthesis (2023)
Journal Article

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

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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19’s impacts on retailing (2021)
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Purpose: This Impact Pathways paper aims to provide a timely and structured discussion of real-world problems at Marks & Spencer and in retail in general, evoked through the current COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: The article presen... Read More about Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19’s impacts on retailing.

How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced? (2020)
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UK legislation, in the form of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (hereafter SVA) and more recently the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (hereafter MSA) has begun to acknowledge the role public procurement can play in improving social sustainability.... Read More about How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?.

The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery (2020)
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© 2020 The Authors. Business Strategy and Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd The United Kingdom's Modern Slavery Act exposed companies to a new ethical challenge in their supply chains. An estimated 40.3 million peop... Read More about The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery.

Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship (2020)
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Modern slavery challenges our traditional approaches to business and business research. It questions a puristic focus on financial profits and some of the commonly used mechanisms in global supply chains such as outsourcing and the creation of long -... Read More about Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship.

Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model (2020)
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Subcontracting represents a popular business model in supply chains across industries. In the case of hidden subcontracting, subcontractors are beyond the visible horizon of the (focal) buying firm. Hence, buyers cannot intervene in the management of... Read More about Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model.

Survival at the expense of the weakest? Managing modern slavery risks in supply chains during COVID-19 (2020)
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'For the English to see' or effective change? How supply chains are shaped by laws and regulations and what that means for the exposure of modern slavery (2019)
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'For the English to see' or effective change?-How supply chains are shaped by laws and regulations and what that means for modern slavery exposure Global supply chains cross and connect judicial systems, providing regulatory and legal frameworks in w... Read More about 'For the English to see' or effective change? How supply chains are shaped by laws and regulations and what that means for the exposure of modern slavery.

The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Civil society increasingly holds focal companies accountable for ensuring socially and environmentally sustainable production standards among their supply base. These standards entail increased levels of complexity to be addresse... Read More about The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection.

Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach (2018)
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Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case,... Read More about Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach.

From bricks-and-mortar to bricks-and-clicks: logistics networks in omni-channel grocery retailing (2018)
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Purpose: The advent of grocery sales through online channels necessitates that bricks-and-mortar retailers redefine their logistics networks if they want to compete online. Because the general understanding of such bricks-and-clicks logistics systems... Read More about From bricks-and-mortar to bricks-and-clicks: logistics networks in omni-channel grocery retailing.

Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector (2017)
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With an increasing proportion of external spend allocated to a smaller number of suppliers in their supply base, car manufacturers rely more and more on the performance of key supply chain partners outside their own organisational boundaries, particu... Read More about Building an innovation-based supplier portfolio: The use of patent analysis in strategic supplier selection in the automotive sector.

Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting (2017)
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We propose the use of agent based modelling to create a shadow account, that is, a secondary account of a business which is used to audit or verify the primary ac¬count. Such a model could be used to test the claims of industries and businesses. For... Read More about Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting.