| 1. |
- Fontana, Enrico
(författare)
-
Managing diversity through transgender inclusion in developing countries: A collaborative corporate social responsibility initiative from Bangladesh
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1535-3966 .- 1535-3958. ; 27:6, s. 2548-2562
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While drawing on a collaborative corporate social responsibility initiative to manage diversity, this article investigates the main drivers of discrimination and the ways to reduce discrimination affecting transgenders in organizations in Bangladesh, a developing country. Often part of the "Hijra" community, transgenders in Bangladesh were acknowledged by the government in 2013 as third gender individuals but remain the most excluded of the excluded and struggle to retain jobs. This research finds that Bangladeshi transgenders at work suffer from internal intimidation because of the gurus or leaders in the community and also from direct and indirect workplace harassment from other workers. Subsequently, it offers a typology of collaborative practices to facilitate inclusion based on persuasion and dialog with gurus, the police, imams, and workers. Finally, this article contributes to the nascent literature on diversity management through transgender inclusion as well as the literature on transgenders and the Hijra community in Bangladesh.
|
|
| 2. |
- Fontana, Enrico
(författare)
-
Social Sustainability from Upstream: Important Takeaways from DBL Group’s People Programmes in the Bangladeshi Apparel Supply Chain
- 2020. - 1
-
Ingår i: Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II, Circular Economy and Beyond. - Cham. : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030552855 - 9783030552848 ; 2, s. 281-302
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the increasing attention of Global Value Chain (GVC) scholars towards multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) for social sustainability, international buyers such as apparel retailers (buyers) keep being referred to as ‘lead’ change agents. In this chapter, I problematize this inherent notion of buyers’ change agency in GVC literature, arguing for the need to understand more deeply the contribution of developing countries’ manufacturers to MSIs and their ability to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from upstream. I do so by conveying a powerful analysis of DBL Group (DBL), one of the most socially proactive manufacturers operating in the Bangladeshi apparel supply chain. By drawing closely on DBL’s approach in articulating its People programmes for social sustainability, this chapter helps conceptualize a three-step governance process based on: (1) learning, (2) integrating and (3) scaling. This process informs how developing countries’ manufacturers can participate with MSIs to lead and diffuse social sustainability programmes in the chain, ultimately helping achieve the SDGs. The chapter concludes with a main discussion on the implications of buyers’ change agency assumed in GVC literature. In so doing, it conveys five distinct takeaways of theoretical and practical import.
|
|
| 3. |
- Fontana, Enrico, et al.
(författare)
-
The Direct and Indirect Control of Sub-Suppliers Through Nominated Procurement in Emerging Markets
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol 2020, No 1. - Academy of Management : Academy of Management. ; 2020:1, s. 18348-
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Little is known in the Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) literature about whether and to what extent international customers (ICs) are able to control sustainability compliance (compliance) upstream in their supply chain. By drawing on the notion of direct and indirect control in business networks and qualitative fieldwork in the Sri Lankan apparel supply chain, this paper examines how ICs control nominated and second-tier sub-suppliers (nominated sub- suppliers) to manage compliance, as well as the implications for their first-tier (direct) suppliers. By unveiling the way ICs exert direct coercive control and indirect normative control on nominated sub-suppliers, our paper provides theorizing of nominated procurement and its effects expected to create valid or validatable insights for emerging markets. Crucially, our paper provides a tangible example of how the indirect control may be stronger than the direct one, yet have consequences for both direct suppliers, sub-suppliers but also raw material suppliers. Reactive patterns as expected in any network would be hampered by this indirect control, while creating ingredients of distrust with suppliers."
|
|
