Beyond corporate codes of conduct: Work organization and labour standards at Nike's suppliers

By Richard M. Locke, Thomas A. Kochan, Monica Romis, Feipeng Qin. 2007

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Strategy and Management

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Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: A New Paradigm for a Changing World (2011, background): “In manufacturing, for example, conditions are likely to be better in the factory of a preferred supplier that is regularly audited than in a subcontracted firm further down the chain that goes unmonitored (Locke et al., 2007).”
Multinational corporations’ economic and human rights impacts on developing countries: a review and research agenda (2014, background): “Locke et al. (2007), comparing labour conditions in two Mexican suppliers of Nike, find that the plant heavily investing in the training of skilled workers registered better treatment of the workforce.”
Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Enforcement of Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (2013, background): “…their efforts by moving towards a common pool of auditors and by sharing audit results in an effort to reduce audit fatigue among suppliers and eliminate conflicting standards, two issues that often hamper private monitoring efforts (Locke et al. 2007a; Nadvi and Waltring 2004; O’Rourke 2002).”
Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “The pilot study was conducted in India over two months, and provided the opportunity to make amendments and improvements in the main data collection process (Locke et al., 2007), which took place over the following six months.”
The Governance of Global Value Chains: Unresolved Human Rights, Environmental and Ethical Dilemmas in the Apple Supply Chain (2015, background): “…et al. 2008), while in addition there has been ‘‘…little progress in improving labour standards through such [private] regulation’’ (Wells 2007, p. 53), and the codes are ‘‘…not producing the large and sustained improvements in workplace conditions that many had hoped’’ (Locke et al. 2007b, p. 21).”
Private Regulation and Trade Union Rights: Why Codes of Conduct Have Limited Impact on Trade Union Rights (2014, background): “The limited impact is partly related to codes of conduct generally proving to have little effect on improving worker rights (e.g., Chan and Siu 2010; Locke et al. 2007; Wells 2007).”
Economic and Social Upgrading in Global Production Networks: Developing a Framework for Analysis. (2012, background): “In manufacturing, conditions are likely to be better in the factory of a preferred supplier that is regularly audited than in a sub-contracted firm further down the chain which goes unmonitored (Locke et al. 2007).”
Revisiting Supplier Compliance with MNC Codes of Conduct: Recoupling Policy and Practice at Chinese Toy Suppliers (2014, background): “Based on an examination of four Chinese toy suppliers in the Guangdong region, we challenge the previous research claim that codes do not significantly improve workers’ rights (e.g., Locke et al. 2007; Wells 2007; Barrientos 2008; Blowfield and Dolan 2008; Chan and Siu 2010).”
Do codes of conduct improve worker rights in supply chains? A study of Fair Wear Foundation (2015, methodology): “…finding in previous research that suppliers exposed to codes show better worker rights compliance (Oka, 2010a, 2010b), even though codes either fail to improve worker rights over time (Locke et al., 2007a, 2007b) or only improve worker rights to a limited extent, as shown in our FWF study.”
Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile and Apparel Industry—A Literature Review (2017, methodology): “[69] conducted the same method and evaluated suppliers of Nike based on their audits [69].”