Abstract
Research on managing working conditions in the supply chain is currently conducted under the umbrella of “social” sustainability. In this introduction to the 2021 Emerging Discourse Incubator, “Managing Working Conditions in Supply Chains: Towards Decent Work,” we argue that the trajectory of this research may be insufficient for addressing decent work. This is due to four characteristics of the extant literature—buyer-centrism, product-centrism, techno-centrism, and social-centrism. As an alternative, we offer ways to ‘humanize’ research on working conditions in supply chains across four dimensions: actors, issues, contexts, and methods. Through humanization, supply chain research has the potential to make a significant scholarly impact as well as to contribute to the realization of decent work in supply chains. We use our proposed path forward as a lens to elaborate on the core contributions of the four invited papers in the Emerging Discourse Incubator.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3-13 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Supply Chain Management |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 22 Feb 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Supply Chain Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Keywords
- diversity issues
- social responsibility
- sustainability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Management Information Systems
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
- Marketing