Egels-Zandén, Niklas; Merk, Jeroen - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 3, pp. 461-473
Codes of conduct are the main tools to privately regulate worker rights in global value chains. Scholars have shown … that while codes may improve outcome standards (such as occupational health and safety), they have had limited impact on …, and argue that codes, in their current form, have limited impact on trade union rights due to (i) buyers paying lip …