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Reinecke, Juliane, Donaghey, Jimmy, Wilkinson, Adrian and Wood, Geoffrey (2018) Global supply chains and social relations at work : brokering across boundaries. Human Relations, 71 (4). pp. 459-480. doi:10.1177/0018726718756497 ISSN 0018-7267.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718756497
Abstract
Global supply chains are not just instruments for the exchange of economic goods and flow of capital across borders. They also connect people in unprecedented ways across social and cultural boundaries and have created new, interrelated webs of social relationships that are socially embedded. However, most of the existing theories of work are mainly based at the level of the corporation, not on the network of relations that interlink them, and how this may impact on work and employment relations. We argue that this web of relations should not just be seen in economic, but also social terms, and that the former are embedded and enabled by the latter. This article argues for the value of focusing on the role of brokers and boundary workers in mediating social relations across global supply chains. It develops four approaches that lie on a spectrum from structural perspectives focused on brokers who link otherwise unconnected actors to more constructivist ones focused on boundary workers performing translation work between domains.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Operational Research & Management Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Business logistics, Industrial organization, International trade, Work -- Social aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Human Relations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0018-7267 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 April 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 71 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 459-480 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726718756497 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 January 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 January 2018 |
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