Global supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundaries

Reinecke, Juliane; Donaghey, Jimmy; Wilkinson, Adrian; Wood, Geoffrey

doi:10.1177/0018726718756497

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“…It is the metaphorical glue of social and relational ties that creates this intangible resource. Yet OM and SCM theory has been dominated by viewing global supply chains as primarily chains of economic transactions (Reinecke et al, 2018), where the logic of transaction costs and the structural position of economic actors shaped how value chains are governed (Gereffi et al, 2005). The effect of the 'people dimension' of the supply chain has been under-researched (Tokar, 2010;Wieland et al, 2016;Schorsch et al, 2017).…”

Section: To Improve the Coverage Of Social And Relational People Issumentioning

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Social network analysis in operations and supply chain management: a review and revised research agenda

Han¹,

Caldwell²,

Ghadge

2020

IJOPM

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PurposeSocial network analysis (SNA) seeks to manage the connections between entities through investigating and understanding behaviours and relationships. This study demonstrates the increasing relevance of social network approaches to solving contemporary and looming operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) problems; including the coordination operations challenges raised by increased connectivity.Design/methodology/approachThe systematic literature review approach adopted here examines 63 papers in OM and SCM published between 2000 and 2019. To-date OM reviews on SNA have focussed on discussing archetypal supply chains, what differentiates this study is the focus on how value was created in other forms of chains and operations.FindingsThis study reveals that current SNA adoption in OM is dominated by a manufacturing style focus on linear, sequential value creation, with a resulting focus only on sequential interdependence. SNA studies on reciprocally co-ordinated value creation (e.g. many service and network operations) are shown to have been neglected and are linked to a new agenda on contemporary management issues.Research limitations/implicationsBeyond encouraging the use of SNA, this study seeks to re-orient SNA approaches towards how contemporary services and networks create value.Originality/valueThrough adopting a unique combination of approaches and frameworks, this study challenges extant work to offer a substantially revised agenda for SNA use in Operations and Supply Chain Management.

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Section: To Improve the Coverage Of Social And Relational People Issumentioning

confidence: 99%

Social network analysis in operations and supply chain management: a review and revised research agenda

Han¹,

Caldwell²,

Ghadge

2020

IJOPM

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“…Increasingly, this model is seen as being displaced by a more fluid marketmediated relationship featuring shorter-term jobs and multiple employers, shift of employment risk to employees, and a new psychological contract that indicates the job only lasts as long as it is a beneficial proposition for both parties (Cappelli 2008;Wilkinson and Pickett 2009). Global supply chains are now estimated to make up some 80 per cent of world trade and 60 per cent of global production (ITUC 2016), presenting challenges for traditional forms of labour market regulation (see Reinecke et al 2018; Thomas in this volume).…”

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Understanding the future of work

Wilkinson¹,

Barry²

2020

The Future of Work and Employment

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According to Yogi Berra, 'the future ain't what it used to be' (Scott 2019). Indeed, this is one of his better observations. The future of work is not a new topic despite the current acres of newsprint that suggest it is. We can go back to Alvin Toffler in 1970-'too much change in too short a period of time'-but, also, many others, from Jeremy Rifkin, who in 1995 predicted the end of work, to more recent publications that claim to be able to predict future trends (e.g. Gratton 2011; Ross 2016; McKinsey 2017). Moreover, for many years we saw two grand narratives. One offered a utopian perspective of the leisure society (Keynes thought 15 hours of work would be enough for a good living by 2030), where for those at work, they existed as empowered knowledge workers. The other narrative envisaged a darker future, featuring intensification, surveillance, casualisation, austerity, financialisation, low pay, long hours, the platform economy and digital technology. In short, in the latter narrative, working life is portrayed as nasty, brutish and long. We see considerable debate at present in both the academic world and the wider community about the direction of work and the desirability of developments both for work and life outside work. A major part of this debate is also influenced by the globalisation of work, the impact of new technologies, and the shift of skills and knowledge development to low-cost labour countries (Howcroft and Taylor 2014). However, these stylised accounts lack granularity and are not based on interrogating the evidence so much as putting together a picture by using a series of often bold predictions, or by using one or two case studies to make generalisations about the future of work. Indeed, prediction is often mixed with prescription and description. Too much of the literature on the future of work favours broad brush strokes in which the world is one of paradigm shifts. Variously, we are told we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, the second machine age, the new economy (Ross 2016). These new, often shaky, assumptions are favoured over notions of contestation, unevenness and choice. It is as

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“…Reciprocity in the movements of capital and labour has been evident since the earliest days of industrialization and has become a prevalent facet of modernity as modern technologies can now harness the productive utility of globally dispersed pools of workers without the need for their physical mobility. In pursuing this analysis, a central analytical tool is the GVC, which arguably has superseded the transnational corporation as the predominant structural form within the global economy (Reinecke et al 2018), the GVC comprising an array of interfirm connections across regions and a shifting international configuration of product and service delivery. Such chains contribute some 80 per cent of world trade and 60 per cent of global production (ITUC 2016).…”

Section: Introduction: a Global Labour Market?mentioning

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“…Such chains contribute some 80 per cent of world trade and 60 per cent of global production (ITUC 2016). As Reinecke et al (2018) suggest, through the globalization of production, 'a fashion shopper or chocolate lover in the UK can become connected to a garment worker in Bangladesh or cocoa grower in Ghana'.…”

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“…In departing from scholarly orthodoxy on the status of GVCs, the editors of a special issue of Human Relations (Reinecke et al 2018) are concerned to point out that the web of relations associated with the GVC are not merely economic in nature, but also profoundly social in their composition, and that such economic relations are embedded and enabled by underlying social factors. It is contended that while GVCs have lifted productive operations out of systems of national governance, the chains serve to interconnect people in unprecedented ways across cultural and institutional territories, intersecting class, age, gender, race, ethnicity, citizenship and religion (Reinecke et al 2018). Such analysis therefore points to a scenario in which spatially separated social relations underlying production in the new global economy are marked by increasing complexity rather than simplicity.…”

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Global value chains in international knowledge work: networks, stratifications and labour markets

Hollinshead¹

2019

Global Networks

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In this article, I aim to cast light on the arguably indeterminate phenomenon of the global labour market (GLM) by placing the focus on an industry that has sometimes been perceived as epitomizing homogeneity and 'world flatness' in its deployment of geographically dispersed knowledge workers, that of international software development. Engaging in a sanguine analysis of this industry with reference to an empirical study of outsourcing to Ukraine it is revealed that labour markets servicing ICT (Information and communication technology) are subject to deep, if fluctuating, social stratifications. With reference to the notion of the global value chain (GVC), 1 the significance of factors such as knowledge, language, citizenship and age as labour market differentiators for knowledge work is brought to the fore.

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Global supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundaries

Cited by 52 publications

References 71 publications

Social network analysis in operations and supply chain management: a review and revised research agenda

Social network analysis in operations and supply chain management: a review and revised research agenda

Understanding the future of work

Global value chains in international knowledge work: networks, stratifications and labour markets

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