Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains: Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries

Riisgaard, Lone; Hammer, Nikolaus

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00744.x

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“…The HRM literature tended in the past to neglect what happens within and across supply chains (Fisher, Graham, Vachon, & Vereecke, 2010), although this has been partially remedied in recent years by a wide range of literature examining global supply chains, labour standards and regulation (see, for example, Riisegaard & Hammer, 2011;Reinecke, Manning, & von Hagen, 2012). Nevertheless, gaps remain in the area of KT of HR practices across supply chains, especially within areas where core firms and key suppliers have traditionally operated in close spatial proximity, which this paper helps to address.…”

Section: Strategic Partnerships Kt and Hr Practicesmentioning

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Knowledge transfer within strategic partnerships: the case of HRM in the Brazilian motor industry supply chain

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2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This paper investigates knowledge transfer (KT) of human resource management (HRM) across strategic partnerships in the Brazilian automotive industry, and the contextual factors impacting on KT within the supply chain. Case-study research in automotive companies and suppliers in Brazil is used to illustrate how in automotive industries, relationships with suppliers have traditionally been viewed as close, strategic partnerships, but over time, there has been a move towards more attenuated, supply chains, involving a shift towards more remote suppliers for basic components, and arms length relationships with them. In turn, this has impacted on how knowledge on HR has been transferred from manufacturers to suppliers. Both strategic partnerships and KT have been affected by internal drives towards cost cutting and talent retention, and external factors such as global competition through cheap imports, legislation, taxes, and unions. Evidence on the sometimes contradictory attitudes towards KT contributes towards the broader literatures on international HRM and KT in emerging economies, while the gradual unwinding of relationships has implications for policy and practice.Keywords: automotive industry; Brazil; HRM; knowledge transfer; strategic partnerships; supply chains This paper investigates how human resource management (HRM) is transferred within strategic partnerships in the Brazilian automotive industry, and the contextual factors that impact on knowledge transfer (KT) within the supply chain. It draws on case-study research in automotive companies and suppliers in Brazil to illustrate how in this sector, relationships have traditionally been viewed as close, strategic partnerships, but over time, there has been a move towards more attenuated supply chains. In turn, this has impacted on how knowledge has been transferred from manufacturers to suppliers. However, both inter-organizational relationships and KT have been affected by internal drives towards cost cutting and problems with talent retention, and external factors such as global competition through cheap imports and the employment relations system. The inherent, and intensifying, tensions and contradictions in these relationships shed light on how mature inter-firm supply relations and associated partnerships are being reconfigured, and dominant HR paradigms challenged and undermined, by structural changes in the global ecosystem, and the rise of new ultra-low-cost producers in the Far East. The paper focuses on the KT dimension: the sharing of information represents a pooling of knowledge, whilst transfer denotes a more focused passing on of knowledge, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016 Vol. 27, No. 20, 2398-2414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016 strategies and processes, with a view to encouraging the promotion and replication of best practices down the supply chain.The paper moves knowledge forward in three main ways. First, it sheds additional light on the nature of relationships within automotive industry supply ...

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Section: Strategic Partnerships Kt and Hr Practicesmentioning

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Knowledge transfer within strategic partnerships: the case of HRM in the Brazilian motor industry supply chain

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Meira

2016

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…In the former, the focus has been mainly on how to optimize processes for sourcing products from domestic or overseas suppliers and pay the lowest possible price for the best possible product, delivered in the shortest possible time frame. Labor research in global value chains instead has addressed how workers (a) benefit from participation in global value chains, (b) are affected by corporations' ethical guidelines and economic upgrading or downgrading processes by local supplier firms, and (c) actively exert their agency to influence their work conditions (Barrientos et al, 2011;Nadvi, 2004;Riisgaard, 2009;Riisgaard and Hammer, 2011). Investigations of the effects of the new cooperative paradigm on CSR in global value chains thus could help build a bridge between operations and supply chain management studies and research into labor standards in global value chains by theorizing and empirically investigating how corporate purchasing practices affect labor standard compliance levels, whether positively or negatively, in developing country export industries.…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

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We outline the drivers, main features, and conceptual underpinnings of the compliance paradigm. We then use a similar structure to investigate the drivers, main features, and conceptual underpinnings of the cooperative paradigm for working with CSR in global value chains. We argue that the measures proposed in the new cooperation paradigm are unlikely to alter power relationships in global value chains and bring about sustained improvements in workers' conditions in developing country export industries. After that, we provide a critical appraisal of the potential and limits of the cooperative paradigm, we summarize our findings, and we outline avenues for research: purchasing practices and labor standard noncompliance, CSR capacity building among local suppliers, and improved CSR monitoring by local resources in the developing world.

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“…More recently, studies have investigated Fairtrade adoption and impact in contexts of permanent employees on plantations, for example, in tea, (Dolan, 2008(Dolan, , 2010Makita, 2012), and cut flowers and bananas (Riisgaard and Gibbon, 2014;Riisgaard and Hammer, 2014;Raynolds, 2012). In contrast, hired labourers who are employed by smallholder farmers or on outgrower schemes or informal workers in estates/plantations have been relatively invisible in certified agricultural value chain studies and debates.…”

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Fairtrade Impacts

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2017

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Prospects for Labour in Global Value Chains: Labour Standards in the Cut Flower and Banana Industries

Cited by 170 publications

References 35 publications

Knowledge transfer within strategic partnerships: the case of HRM in the Brazilian motor industry supply chain

Knowledge transfer within strategic partnerships: the case of HRM in the Brazilian motor industry supply chain

Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?

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