Gap (RED): Social Responsibility Campaign or Window Dressing?

Amazeen, Michael E.

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“…Owner-managers sometimes disrupt institutional demands by undermining associated core assumptions and beliefs through contrary practices, or by employing adroit but superficial or misleading presentations of conformity, designed to create a favorable impression and to avoid any further demands. In the global supply chains literature, this work is referred to as “window-dressing” (Amazeen, 2011; Lin, 2010).…”

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Small Business and Social Irresponsibility in Developing Countries: Working Conditions and “Evasion” Institutional Work

2016

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Small businesses in developing countries, as part of global supply chains, are sometimes assumed to respond in a straightforward manner to institutional demands for improved working conditions. This article problematizes this perspective. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data from Tirupur’s knitwear export industry in India, we highlight owner-managers’ agency in avoiding or circumventing these demands. The small businesses here actively engage in irresponsible business practices and “evasion” institutional work to disrupt institutional demands in three ways: undermining assumptions and values, dissociating consequences, and accumulating autonomy and political strength. This “evasion” work is supported by three conditions: void (in labor welfare mechanisms), distance (from institutional monitors), and contradictions (between value systems). Through detailed empirical findings, the article contributes to research on both small business social responsibility and institutional work.

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Small Business and Social Irresponsibility in Developing Countries: Working Conditions and “Evasion” Institutional Work

2016

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“…Some studies in particular, question the extent to which such initiatives can be an alternate to obligatory regulatory frameworks by exposing the gap between desirability of improving working conditions in supply chains in theory and the implementation of improved working conditions in numerous developing countries (Fulponi, 2006;Lund-Thomsen and Nadvi, 2010;Nadvi, 2008;Welford and Frost, 2006). This lack in implementation is the core reason why even genuine attempts by corporations to realise improved working conditions are seen as mere window dressings, smoke screens or symbols of protectionism (Amazeen, 2011;Fox, 2004;Palley, 2005). With our focus on governance of working conditions in global supply chains, we endeavour to move beyond the view-dominant in supply chain studies-of developed country buyers' perspective (Ählström and Egels-Zandén, 2008;Baden et al, 2009).…”

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“…Second, suppliers are subject to transaction uncertainties, which, when accompanied by information asymmetry, can pose a significant risk to the viability of their businesses and tempt them to game the system to cover their risks (Amaeshi et al, 2008). For instance, they may become involved in corruption (Azmat and Samaratunge, 2009) or conceal irresponsible practices via windowdressing practices to escape monetary and/or trade penalisations from government and/or buyers (Amazeen, 2011). These activities can distort the perceptions of other stakeholders in the supply chain who are assessing the distribution of value across the spectrum of participants, leading to perceptions of unfairness and injustice.…”

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Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective

2014

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Poor working conditions remain a serious problem in supplier facilities in developing countries. While previous research has explored this from the developed buyers' side, we examine this phenomenon from the perspective of developing countries' suppliers and subcontractors. Utilizing qualitative data from a major knitwear exporting cluster in India and a stakeholder management lens, we develop a framework that shows how the assumptions of conventional, buyer-driven voluntary governance break down in the dilution of buyer power and in the web of factors rooted in suppliers' traditions, beliefs, local demands and resource dependency. We reveal out how success in governing collaborative global supply chains often falls short within the subcontracting stage, where a stakeholder management mindset is elusive to most participants. We suggest that success in governing collaborative global supply chains is dependent on concepts of stakeholder utility and the presence of shared value that is often at odds with the realities of power, information asymmetry and compliance/reward systems inherent in the non-market coordination of global supply chains. Our findings offer important insights for delineating the concepts of value creation from CSR concepts and practices, and for modifying the basic assumptions of conventional supply chain governance.

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“…In spite of the growth of the social responsibility report, there is a gray area with legal weaknesses and impositions (Baxi & Ray, 2009), audit procedures, supervision and control, more in the environmental context (Lys et al, 2015) than in the social context (Cohen et al, 2014), which has led to the creation of more and better dissemination maps although there is much work to be done (Gilbert et al, 2011;Amazeen, 2011;Dawkins & Fraas, 2011), especially in access to information (Holder-Webb et al, 2009;Freguete et al, 2016).…”

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O relato da informação financeira de responsabilidade social como contributo para a performance das empresas portuguesas

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2018

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Resumo Atualmente, as empresas utilizam a responsabilidade social como veículo de competição simultaneamente com outras estratégias organizacionais. Pela transversalidade e multidisciplinariedade do tema, a responsabilidade social é importante em vários domínios organizacionais, sendo o seu relato, particularmente o financeiro, um dos mais relevantes. Com base no seu relato financeiro, é possível determinar níveis de performance e fixar metas mais auspiciosas. Neste estudo, pretende-se verificar se as empresas portuguesas, que relatam informação de responsabilidade social no nível financeiro, são mais atrativas e se essa informação consegue potenciar performances empresariais. Para o efeito, foram aplicados 550 questionários a empresas nacionais, sem valores admitidos à cotação, com sede em Portugal continental, sendo que 344 foram validados e analisados aplicando-se uma estatística descritiva para apresentação de resultados. As principais reflexões indicaram que a falta de divulgação de informação social, humana e ambiental, nas empresas portuguesas, dificulta determinadas avaliações de performance pelos stakeholders, mas que, quando existe relato financeiro de informação socialmente responsável, esta impulsiona os resultados econômicos, a criação de valor e melhora a performance dessas empresas.

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Gap (RED): Social Responsibility Campaign or Window Dressing?

Abstract: corporate social responsibility, advertising, Gap Inc., Product RED,

Cited by 23 publications

References 22 publications

Small Business and Social Irresponsibility in Developing Countries: Working Conditions and “Evasion” Institutional Work

Small Business and Social Irresponsibility in Developing Countries: Working Conditions and “Evasion” Institutional Work

Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective

O relato da informação financeira de responsabilidade social como contributo para a performance das empresas portuguesas

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