Toward a total morality of supply chain acts
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2022-07-12
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Emerald
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Purpose
In response to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights from 2011, several governments are enacting laws against exploitation in global supply chains. Such a legislative proposal is problematic in several respects. The authors aim to discuss these problems from an ethical perspective to provide a theoretical basis for law-setting and management decisions.
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The paper studies the question based on an ethical framework with a libertarian focus.
Findings
From the perspective of a property rights-based ethics such a proposal prohibits voluntary exchanges and, thereby, a fundamental human right. From a utilitarian perspective it diminishes the utility of the parties of a potential exchange, because they cannot engage an exchange that they want to make. Moreover, it does not only shift an original state task to companies, but also tries to enforce specific values which are not shared all over the world, in third countries. In addition, it creates considerable restrictions on foreign procurement markets for domestic companies, which counteract the actual objective of the law.
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Bagus, P., Daumann, F. and Follert, F. (2022), "Toward a total morality of supply chain acts", Management Decision, Vol. 60 No. 6, pp. 1541-1559.
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