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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.

NSGA-II and TOPSIS for a Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Ecological Considerations (2022)
Book Chapter
Petrovic, S., Jubaer Islam, K., & Trautrims, A. (in press). NSGA-II and TOPSIS for a Multi-Objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Ecological Considerations. In Optimization Techniques - Theory and Practice. Springer

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

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., …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.

Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture (2021)
Book Chapter
Trautrims, A., & Phillips, A. (2021). Feeding A Rich Nation. Modern Slavery Reporting In UK Agriculture. In S. Gold, M. Gabriele Arnold, J. N. Muthuri, & X. Rueda (Eds.), Base of the Pyramid Markets in Affluent Countries Innovation and challenges to sustainability. Routledge

Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19’s impacts on retailing (2021)
Journal Article
Schleper, M., Gold, S., Trautrims, A., & Baldock, D. (2021). Pandemic-induced knowledge gaps in operations and supply chain management: COVID-19’s impacts on retailing. International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 41(3), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijopm-12-2020-0837

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)
Journal Article
Emberson, C., & Trautrims, A. (2020). How might modern slavery risk in English adult social care procurement be reduced?. Public Procurement Law Review, 29(6), 390-404

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)
Journal Article
Trautrims, A., Gold, S., Emberson, C., Touboulic, A., & Carter, H. (2021). The UK construction and facilities management sector's response to the Modern Slavery Act: An intra-industry initiative against modern slavery. Business Strategy and Development, 4(3), 279-293. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.158

© 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)
Journal Article
Trautrims, A. (2020). Modern Slavery Responses Need International Business Scholarship. AIB Insights, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.13539

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)
Journal Article
Gold, S., Chesney, T., Gruchmann, T., & Trautrims, A. (2020). Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(6), 1274-1286. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13041

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.

'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)
Journal Article
Pinheiro, S. M., Emberson, C., & Trautrims, A. (2019). '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. Journal of the British Academy, 7(s1), 167-190. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/007s1.167

'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.

How might modern slavery risk in adult social care procurement be reduced? (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emberson, C., & Trautrims, A. (2019, June). How might modern slavery risk in adult social care procurement be reduced?. Paper presented at Public Procurement Global Revolutions IX, Nottingham, UK

In its second interim report from the independent review of the UK Modern Slavery Act, the review committee recommended that Section 54: Transparency in supply chains (TISC) be extended to public authorities. This duty would apply to both products an... Read More about How might modern slavery risk in adult social care procurement be reduced?.

Investigating global supply chains for slave labour: Using external data for enhanced supply chain mapping (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emberson, C., Croser, M., Gomes, M., Brasil, R., Brazil, J. N., Business, H., …Trautrims, A. (2019). Investigating global supply chains for slave labour: Using external data for enhanced supply chain mapping.

This paper presents empirical data of instances of slavery in Brazilian-UK beef and timber supply chains. We use this analysis, coupled with data related to the changes to supply chain practices reported by UK importers under the UK Modern Slavery Ac... Read More about Investigating global supply chains for slave labour: Using external data for enhanced supply chain mapping.

Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emberson, C., Pinheiro, S., & Trautrims, A. (2019). Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains.

This paper presents an analysis of four supply chain initiatives that exemplify the development of capabilities in the detection and remediation of the risk of slave labour in the upstream supply chains of Brazilian companies supplying Brazilian timb... Read More about Combating slave labour in productive chains: capability developments in Brazilian-UK timber and beef supply chains.

The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection (2019)
Journal Article
Pishchulov, G., Trautrims, A., Chesney, T., Gold, S., & Schwab, L. (2019). The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection. International Journal of Production Economics, 211, 166-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2019.01.025

© 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.