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Information disclosure is a common regulatory tool designed to influence business behavior. A belief is that transparency can provoke learning and also positive institutional change by empowering private watchdogs to monitor and pressure business leaders to alter harmful behavior. Beginning in...
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to operate beyond merely abiding by Chinese law, and contribute more by self-regulation along with other stakeholders in …
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Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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This paper discusses an effort of creative lawyering by a Working Group of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association to help enable business clients to prevent and mitigate human rights abuse in their supply chains. A Working Group of the Business Section of the American Bar...
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Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...
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The European Commission is planning a new regulation for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (Due … an EU due diligence regulation by presenting results of a recent survey conducted by the German Economic Institute (IW … companies expect from the introduction of this German regulation. The results from the survey indicate that the introduction of …
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This article examines a company's responsibility to respect human rights, focusing in particular on corporate global supply chains. While global supply chains have long been associated with a range of human rights violations, a number of recent legislative initiatives both in Australia and...
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implications for U.S. law and the regulation of employment in particular, has been absent from legal scholarship.This Article fills …
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This paper is about a set of interrelated labour law initiatives called quot;supply chain regulation.quot; This set of … regulation originated as a response to the exploitation of outworkers in the apparel industry. However, the development of supply … chain regulation in successive jurisdictions confirms that it is progressively being transformed into a generic model of …
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