From global justice to supply chain ethics

Q2 Social Sciences

Transnational Legal Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/20414005.2021.1978203

Ioannis Kampourakis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This article traces a transition in the aspirations of social justice on global scale. The ‘welfare world’ vision of global justice, as it was captured most prominently by the proposals for a New International Economic Order in the mid-1970s, is contrasted with the contemporary ambitions of ‘supply chain ethics’, which seek to infuse transnational corporations with social responsibilities. These visions differ drastically in their ambitions, their epistemologies, and the role they reserve for the state but share a structural outlook on issues of social justice. Following the theme of the Special Issue, the shortcomings and the potential of the current supply chain ethics agenda in addressing the ‘human problems’ associated with corporate irresponsibility are reviewed. The paper suggests that mediating between structure and agency in a way that recontextualises the democratic principle is necessary to challenge power asymmetries in global regimes of production.

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从全球正义到供应链伦理

摘要本文追溯了全球范围内社会正义愿望的转变。全球正义的“福利世界”愿景在20世纪70年代中期的新国际经济秩序提案中得到了最突出的体现，与当代寻求为跨国公司注入社会责任的“供应链伦理”野心形成了鲜明对比。这些愿景在雄心、认识论和为国家保留的角色方面存在巨大差异，但在社会正义问题上有着共同的结构性观点。根据特刊的主题，审查了当前供应链道德议程在解决与企业不负责任相关的“人类问题”方面的不足和潜力。本文认为，为了挑战全球生产制度中的权力不对称，有必要在结构和机构之间进行调解，使民主原则重新文本化。

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Transnational Legal Theory Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： The objective of Transnational Legal Theory is to publish high-quality theoretical scholarship that addresses transnational dimensions of law and legal dimensions of transnational fields and activity. Central to Transnational Legal Theory''s mandate is publication of work that explores whether and how transnational contexts, forces and ideations affect debates within existing traditions or schools of legal thought. Similarly, the journal aspires to encourage scholars debating general theories about law to consider the relevance of transnational contexts and dimensions for their work. With respect to particular jurisprudence, the journal welcomes not only submissions that involve theoretical explorations of fields commonly constructed as transnational in nature (such as commercial law, maritime law, or cyberlaw) but also explorations of transnational aspects of fields less commonly understood in this way (for example, criminal law, family law, company law, tort law, evidence law, and so on). Submissions of work exploring process-oriented approaches to law as transnational (from transjurisdictional litigation to delocalized arbitration to multi-level governance) are also encouraged. Equally central to Transnational Legal Theory''s mandate is theoretical work that explores fresh (or revived) understandings of international law and comparative law ''beyond the state'' (and the interstate). The journal has a special interest in submissions that explore the interfaces, intersections, and mutual embeddedness of public international law, private international law, and comparative law, notably in terms of whether such inter-relationships are reshaping these sub-disciplines in directions that are, in important respects, transnational in nature.