Designing Better Interventions: Insights from Research on Decent Work

IF 10.2 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Journal of Supply Chain Management Pub Date : 2021-02-01 DOI:10.1111/jscm.12261

Peter Hasle, Jan Vang

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Abstract

Based on our experience of carrying out theoretically and practically sound interventions to improve working conditions in global supply chains, we show what makes interventions succeed or fail and what is required to ensure that an intervention’s results are sustainable in the future. Our suggestions are applicable to designing any intervention in supply chain research, but need tailoring to the local context. Our interventions were aimed at achieving decent working conditions in emerging-country suppliers, but our insights are applicable for all supply chain scholars. In the context of emerging-country suppliers, poor working conditions have been strongly criticized after the Rana Plaza accident and subsequently received more attention with the UN’s introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (notably, SDG 8). Tensions between productivity-enhancing and decent work logics create challenges for the design of interventions with long-lasting performance improvements. This paper presents a way of overcoming the tensions by illustrating how interventions that integrate improvements in working conditions with productivity can be designed.

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设计更好的干预措施:来自体面劳动研究的见解

根据我们在改善全球供应链工作条件方面实施理论和实践上合理的干预措施的经验，我们展示了干预措施成功或失败的原因，以及确保干预结果在未来可持续发展所需的条件。我们的建议适用于设计供应链研究中的任何干预措施，但需要根据当地情况进行调整。我们的干预措施旨在为新兴国家的供应商提供体面的工作条件，但我们的见解适用于所有供应链学者。在新兴国家供应商的背景下，恶劣的工作条件在拉纳广场事故后受到了强烈批评，随后随着联合国引入可持续发展目标(特别是可持续发展目标8)而受到更多关注。提高生产力和体面工作逻辑之间的紧张关系为设计具有持久绩效改善的干预措施带来了挑战。本文提出了一种克服紧张局势的方法，说明如何将改善工作条件与生产力相结合的干预措施设计出来。

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Journal of Supply Chain Management MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

16.00

自引率

6.60%

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期刊介绍： ournal of Supply Chain Management Mission: The mission of the Journal of Supply Chain Management (JSCM) is to be the premier choice among supply chain management scholars from various disciplines. It aims to attract high-quality, impactful behavioral research that focuses on theory building and employs rigorous empirical methodologies. Article Requirements: An article published in JSCM must make a significant contribution to supply chain management theory. This contribution can be achieved through either an inductive, theory-building process or a deductive, theory-testing approach. This contribution may manifest in various ways, such as falsification of conventional understanding, theory-building through conceptual development, inductive or qualitative research, initial empirical testing of a theory, theoretically-based meta-analysis, or constructive replication that clarifies the boundaries or range of a theory. Theoretical Contribution: Manuscripts should explicitly convey the theoretical contribution relative to the existing supply chain management literature, and when appropriate, to the literature outside of supply chain management (e.g., management theory, psychology, economics). Empirical Contribution: Manuscripts published in JSCM must also provide strong empirical contributions. While conceptual manuscripts are welcomed, they must significantly advance theory in the field of supply chain management and be firmly grounded in existing theory and relevant literature. For empirical manuscripts, authors must adequately assess validity, which is essential for empirical research, whether quantitative or qualitative.