Letter from the Editors : Special Issue on “Investigating Modern Slavery: How IB Scholarship Can Contribute”

This Special Issue Commentary and Introduction briefly outlines how modern slavery is linked to international business via globally disaggregated production systems governed through ownership and contracts by MNCs. Numerous mechanisms and practices mask the presence of modern slavery across the globe. Uncovering modern slavery is a grand challenge that can and should be tackled by IB researchers and educators. Each of the Special Issue articles is devoted to different aspects of modern slavery and proposes how IB scholarship can address the phenomenon. Full paper available at https://doi.org/10.46697/001c.14362