and then interpreted by management professionals. Building on an infrastructural analysis of supply chain governance, I … its expansive role. Sedex is translating modern slavery into a management problem largely based on quantitative metrics …

Using a novel dataset of establishment-level management practices from the U.S. Census Bureau, we show that firms with … more specific, formal, frequent, or explicit (i.e., “structured”) management practices tend to acquire establishments with … less structured management practices, and following the acquisition, adopt more structured practices at the target …