Freedom, Autonomy, and Harm in Global Supply Chains

Responding to criticism by Gordon Sollars and Frank Englander, this paper highlights a significant tension in recent debates over the ethics of global supply chains. This tension concerns the appropriate focus and normative frame(s) for these debates. My first goal is to make sense of what at first...

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Main Author: Preiss, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2019
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 160, Issue: 4, Pages: 881-891
Further subjects:B Sweatshops
B Supply chain ethics
B Freedom and markets
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