Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives and Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains: Towards an Analytical Framework and a Methodology

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Author(s): Ahmad Hassan (Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark)and Peter Lund-Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 17
Source title: Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dima Jamali (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0720-8.ch012

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Ethics & Law / Global Business / Security & Forensics

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In this chapter, we make a contribution to the literature on corporate social responsibility in global value chains that link dispersed consumers and importers in developed countries with local manufacturers, workers, and communities in developing countries. We create an integrated analytical framework and a methodology that can guide master-level and Ph.D. students as well as practitioners on how they may map the governance processes through which multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) in global value chains are formulated, implemented, monitored as well as the impact that MSI standards have on the work conditions of those laboring at the base of global value chains. We use a stylized case study of fair trade in the football manufacturing industry in Pakistan to illustrate how the framework and the methodology might be applied to the empirical analysis of MSI governance processes and their impacts on workers' conditions in export-oriented industries in the South.

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