For An Institutional Approach To Corporate Governance: Making Sense Of NGO Campaigns In Global Apparel Chains

Université Montpellier I

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In the 1990s, increased inequalities and the continuous deterioration of working conditions in global value chains (GVCs), especially in labor-intensive production segments such as apparel assembly, prompted the emergence of a ‘corporate accountability movement’ made of transnational networks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and trade unions seeking to improve work conditions at the bottom of GVCs, by empowering workers and re-establishing the social responsibility of large profit-accumulating firms operating at the top of these global chains (Newell, 2002; Bendel, 2004; Utting, 2005a).

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