From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains

Donaghey, Jimmy; Reinecke, Juliane; Niforou, Christina; Lawson, Benn

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“…The power of consumption-based actors in supply chains can be conceptualised using Hirschman's (1970) exit, voice and loyalty framework (Donaghey et al, 2014). Consumers can exercise power through "exiting" (or threat thereof) the consumption relationship by boycotting goods.…”

Section: Consumption Actors In Global Labour Governancementioning

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After Rana Plaza: Building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations

2015

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Original citation:Reinecke, Juliane and Donaghey, Jimmy. (2015) After Rana Plaza : building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations. Organization, 22 (5). pp. 720-740. Permanent WRAP url:http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/72034 Copyright and reuse:The Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) makes this work by researchers of the University of Warwick available open access under the following conditions. Copyright © and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable the material made available in WRAP has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full items can be used for personal research or study, educational, or not-for profit purposes without prior permission or charge. Provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. Publisher's statement:Published version of the article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508415585028 A note on versions:The version presented here may differ from the published version or, version of record, if you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the 'permanent WRAP url' above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. Abstract:Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction of the two. Using an exploratory case study of the governance response to the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, this article examines how complementary capacities of production and consumptionbased actors generated coalitional power, and contributed to creating the "Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh", making it binding and convincing more than 180 brand-name companies to sign up. The research has implications for understanding how the interface between production and consumption actors may provide leverage to improve labour standards in global supply chains. Keywords

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Section: Consumption Actors In Global Labour Governancementioning

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2015

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“…An emerging body of work on private equity suggests that such investors are more likely to aggressively drive redundancies and other more hardline HRM policies when they originate from LMEs (Clark 2007;Appelbaum, Batt and Clark 2013;Goergen and Wood 2014). Again, the emergence of ultra-low cost manufacturers in Asia has undermined established regional production networks; more extended and opaque Global Value Chains may lead to job losses and drive down wages (and, weaken the countervailing power of labour) amongst established players and regions (Donaghey, Reinecke, Niforou and Lawson 2014). There is also the issue of the mobility of labour.…”

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What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

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2016

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Significant progress has been made in the research on variations in human resource management (HRM) across national boundaries, in both the quantity of studies and theoretical advancements since the mid-1980s. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of existing literature on cross-country comparative studies of HRM as an important strand of the international HRM field in order to shed new light on dominant key concerns and themes, and emerging syntheses. More specifically, we conducted a systematic review of cross-country comparative HRM studies published in academic journals in the English language in the 15-year period of 2000-2014. Our paper charted the development of cross-country comparative studies of HRM as a sub-field of HRM research. Our analysis of 125 articles from 30 business and management journals shows the countries/regions that have been studied, topics, and research methods used. We also highlight a number of research avenues for further study in this field. Although there are a number of distinct strands to the literature, our study concludes that there is an emerging common ground in underlying concerns and theoretical assumptions both within the field, and with other areas of management inquiry.

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“…Above all, these initiatives have failed to create viable working conditions related information sharing ecosystems, particularly for GSCs. Scholars argue that the contribution made by various actors to GSC governance must not be ignored (Donaghey et al, 2014;Locke, 2013: Mena & Palazzo, 2012.…”

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“…Suppliers face especially strict scrutiny in maintaining and improving working conditions, mainly because of many issues in developing countries that may prevent them from meeting required standards. These problems demand the attention of various actors within the GSCs, including local government, sourcing agents, lead firms, civil society, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) (Donaghey et al, 2014;Levy, 2008).…”

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Beyond brokering: Sourcing agents, boundary work and working conditions in global supply chains

2017

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The role that sourcing agents, autonomous peripheral actors located in developing economies, play in the governance of working conditions in global supply chains (GSCs) has been greatly underexplored in the literature. The present paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study that examined the boundary work of sourcing agents aimed at dismantling or bridging the boundaries that affect the interaction between buyers and suppliers, in order to facilitate development and implementation of meaningful working conditions or social relations at work. We identify four types of boundary work that sourcing agents used to manage combinations of accommodative and non-accommodative buyers and suppliers in order to work through boundaries created by buyerÕs liability of foreignness (LOF): reinforcing, flexing (type 1 and 2), and restoring. We also found four essential conditions for a sourcing agent to become an effective boundary-spanner in practice: acquiring knowledge about the relevant fields and actors, gaining legitimacy in the relevant fields and in the opinion of the parties involved, effectively translating the expectations of each party to the other, and benefiting from satisfying incentives. We contribute to the literature on governance for working conditions in GSCs, boundary theory, and LOF.

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From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains

Cited by 117 publications

References 73 publications

After Rana Plaza: Building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations

After Rana Plaza: Building coalitional power for labour rights between unions and (consumption-based) social movement organisations

What do we know about cross-country comparative studies in HRM? A critical review of literature in the period of 2000-2014

Beyond brokering: Sourcing agents, boundary work and working conditions in global supply chains

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