Unauthorized subcontracting—when suppliers outsource part of their production to a third
party without the retailer's consent—has been common practice in the apparel industry and …

This paper identifies and addresses the challenges of implementing the corporate
responsibility to respect human rights in practice at project sites. To support on-ground …

Abstract Background Since the 2013 Rana Plaza incident in Bangladesh, the government of
Bangladesh has been under pressure to improve health and safety conditions for workers in …

Formal, compliance-focused governance for supply chain sustainability initiatives has a
mixed empirical track record. We build on classic research on bureaucracy to examine how …

In 2013, the Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the highly exploitative conditions of the global
garment supply chain centred on Bangladesh. Global lead firms and other stakeholders …

Sweatshop working conditions in many developing countries have raised public scrutiny.
The growing demands for worker safety at work, congenial atmosphere in the factory, and …

Economic globalization involves trade, capital flows and the movement of labour, and an
important element in that process is the globalization of production. With the gradual …

This article examines regulatory governance ('RG') within its own ecology. It considers RG
as an ideology of governance, as its own set of techniques to that end, and as a …

This thesis investigates the transformative potential of automated text analysis techniques,
specifically text mining (TM) and natural language processing (NLP), in advancing the …

This chapter argues that viewing corporations as political actors in developing countries
provides additional insights for understanding the relationship between corporate social …