The ethical and economic case against sweatshop labor: A critical assessment

B Powell, M Zwolinski - Journal of business ethics, 2012 - Springer
During the last decade, scholarly criticism of sweatshops has grown increasingly
sophisticated. This article reviews the new moral and economic foundations of these …

Exploitation and sweatshop labor: Perspectives and issues

J Snyder - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2010 - cambridge.org
In this review, I survey theoretical accounts of exploitation in business, chiefly through the
example of low wage or sweatshop labor. Labor of this kind is often described as self …

Building trust between consumers and corporations: The role of consumer perceptions of transparency and social responsibility

J Kang, G Hustvedt - Journal of business ethics, 2014 - Springer
Developing trust in a company is a significant part of building the company-consumer
relationship. Previous studies have sought to identify the positive consequences of trust …

Work design influences: A synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs

SK Parker, A Van den Broeck… - Academy of Management …, 2017 - journals.aom.org
High-quality work design is a key determinant of employee well-being, positive work
attitudes, and job/organizational performance. Yet, many job incumbents continue to …

Unfairness by design? The perceived fairness of digital labor on crowdworking platforms

C Fieseler, E Bucher, CP Hoffmann - Journal of Business Ethics, 2019 - Springer
Based on a qualitative survey among 203 US workers active on the microwork platform
Amazon Mechanical Turk, we analyze potential biases embedded in the institutional setting …

Sweatshops, choice, and exploitation

M Zwolinski - Business Ethics Quarterly, 2007 - cambridge.org
This paper argues that sweatshop workers' choices to accept the conditions of their
employment are morally significant, both as an exercise of their autonomy and as an …

Stakeholder forces of socially responsible supply chain management orientation

H Park-Poaps, K Rees - Journal of business ethics, 2010 - Springer
This project investigates salient stakeholder forces of socially responsible supply chain
orientation (SRSCO) in the apparel and footwear sector focusing on fair labor management …

The influence of ethical culture on supplier selection in the context of sustainable sourcing

P Goebel, C Reuter, R Pibernik, C Sichtmann - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Driven by the upsurge in global (out-) sourcing and the changing expectations of
organizations' stakeholders, companies are increasingly being held responsible for the …

An analysis of job dissatisfaction and turnover to reduce global supply chain risk: Evidence from China

B Jiang, RC Baker, GV Frazier - Journal of operations management, 2009 - Elsevier
Suppliers' labor problems in developing countries have emerged as a key risk in global
supply chains. In China's coastal industrial zones, where most Fortune 500 companies have …

Mental models, moral imagination and system thinking in the age of globalization

PH Werhane - Journal of business ethics, 2008 - Springer
After experiments with various economic systems, we appear to have conceded, to misquote
Winston Churchill that “free enterprise is the worst economic system, except all the others …