From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains

Human Resource Management

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 229-252

  Donaghey, Jimmy ^a   Reinecke, Juliane ^a   Niforou, Christina ^b   Lawson, Benn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer relations; Employment relations; Global supply chains; Labor governance; Labor standards; Private regulation; Transnational governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896543039     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21552     Document Type: Article

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