Inhospitable Accessibility and Blurred Liability: Institutional Voids in an Emerging Economy Preventing Supply Network Transparency
Document title: Inhospitable Accessibility and Blurred Liability: Institutional Voids in an Emerging Economy Preventing Supply Network Transparency
Journal: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
Database: CLASE
System number: 000507285
ISSN: 1807-7692
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
2Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro. Brasil
3Centro Universitário FEI, Sao Paulo. Brasil
Year:
Volumen: 18
Number: 2
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract Research on supply network transparency is incipient and focused on how focal firms can improve monitoring of supplier misbehavior. This narrow focus has restricted advancements in the topic. Our research, firstly, shifts the focus from supplier to focal firm misbehavior, and secondly, focuses on Brazil as an exemplar of an emerging economy. We explore how institutional voids influence supply network transparency. We focus on how voids in regulation, labor market, and contracting systems provide fruitful land for buyer misconduct and undermine supply network transparency. We review legislation in five developed countries to contrast with legislation in Brazil and we synthesize six years of Brazilian law suits regarding outsourcing issues in the apparel sector. This study exposes that voids can ease pressures allowing firms to navigate ‘below the radar’ and sustain poor working conditions along the supply network. Within this context, society has limited information availability and accessibility - what we label inhospitable accessibility (due to the regulatory void), as well as limited proportionality between real risks in the supply network and traceability of those risks back to the buying firm - what we label blurred liability (due to voids in labor market and contracting systems), thus preventing supply network transparency
Disciplines: Administración y contaduría
Keyword: Administración de instituciones,
Administración de la producción,
Transparencia,
Cadenas de abastecimiento,
Isomorfismo
Keyword: Management of institutions,
Production management,
Transparency,
Supply networks,
Institutional void,
Institutional isomorphism
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