New partnerships between governments, private companies, and nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs) are reshaping global environmental governance. In particular, there …

Within the international political economy (IPE) literature on global supply chains, there is
growing debate about the effectiveness of private global supply chain solutions to address …

How do public and private labor governance regimes intersect in global supply chains and
with what effects? Based on fieldwork in Bangladesh, including interviews with garment …

Politics, and by extension states, are marginal in debates about the genesis, evolution and
functioning of the global value chain (GVC)-based global economy. We contend here that …

This article starts from the premise that International Political Economy (IPE) literature–with
some notable exceptions–has a blind spot for the colonial and contested histories of …

Over the last thirty years, sustainability has become a growing concern in the fashion
industry. While there is agreement among a growing range of actors regarding the need to …

Global supply chains play a critical role in many of the most pressing environmental stresses
and social struggles identified by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals …

Benchmarking practices have rapidly diffused throughout the globe in recent years. This can
be traced to their popularity amongst non-state actors, such as civil society organisations …

In this commentary, we examine the fashion industry's early responses to COVID-19.
Looking across fashion's global production networks, we argue the fashion industry's …

Eco-labels are informational cues that transform credence into quasi-search attributes but
their influence on consumer decision making is often disappointing. This paper identifies …