文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Field Opacity and Practice-Outcome Decoupling: Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains

作者：Kuruvilla, Sarosh[1];Liu, Mingwei[2];Li, Chunyun[3];Chen, Wansi[4]

机构：[1]Cornell Univ, ILR Sch, Ind & Lab Relat, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA;[2]Rutgers Sch Management & Lab Relat, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA;[3]London Sch Econ, Dept Management, London, England;[4]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2020

卷号：73

期号：4

起止页码：841

外文期刊名：ILR REVIEW

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000516353100001)】；

基金：Sarosh Kuruvilla acknowledges the helpful comments of Matt Amengual, Greg Distelhorst, Duanyi Yang, Matt Fischer-Daly, and Anna Burger, as well as participants of workshops conducted at MIT, Kings College, the International Labour Organization, and Cardiff University. This research is partly supported by the New Conversations Project: Sustainable Labor Practices in the Global Economy, Cornell University. Mingwei Liu acknowledges partial research support for this project by the Major Research Program of Chinese National Philosophy and Social Science Foundation titled Research on Interests, Roles, Action Styles, and Interactive Mechanisms among the Parties of Labour Relations in China (Project No. 16AZD013), the National Social Science Foundation of China (Project No. 17BGL106), and a Rutgers Global collaborative research grant. Chunyun Li acknowledges support from the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Project 2016A030310343). For further details about the data and interviews used in this article, please contact either Chunyun Li atc.li46@lse.ac.uk or Mingwei Liu at mingwei@ smlr.rutgers.edu.

语种：英文

外文关键词：multinational corporations; corporate codes of conduct; labor standards; global supply chains; sustainability; social auditing; private regulation; private governance

摘要：Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable improvements in working conditions for those workers. The authors draw on recent developments in institutional theory regarding the development of opaque institutional fields that cause the decoupling between practices and outcomes to develop a new explanation for the lack of sustainable improvement in labor practices in supply chains. Using qualitative and quantitative data from a global apparel supplier and a global home products retailer, they demonstrate the various ways in which opacity causes decoupling between private regulation practices of global firms and outcomes for workers in supply chains.