The management of working conditions in global supply chains has become a pressing
issue in supply chain research and practice. In the absence of effective public labor …

To what extent are multinational corporations able to address societal challenges through
voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Based on an in-depth qualitative study of …

Working conditions on many digital work platforms often contribute to the grand challenge of
establishing decent work. While research has examined the public regulation of platform …

While political CSR scholarship has focused on the role of dialogue between MNCs and civil
society actors at the transnational level in creating global governance standards, we seek to …

Most research on private governance examines the design and negotiation of particular
initiatives or their operation and effectiveness once established, with relatively little work on …

In the developing economy of Bangladesh, local factory owners in the garment industry have
felt great pressure to improve factory safety, but the costs for those improvements are not …

This Introduction synthesizes the key themes of this special cluster of articles and explores
the implications of the three contributions on garment supply chains after the Rana Plaza …

National innovation systems (NIS) are generally perceived as a set of interconnected
organizations (or structures) that domestically produce and commercially implement …

ABSTRACT The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh ('the Accord') has
received both praise and criticism concerning its implications for corporate responsibility and …

There is a growing phenomenon of brand advocacy, where brands pressure a producer
country government to take pro‐worker actions such as respecting the rights of activists and …