Modern Slavery Statements and UK Retail Supply Chains

Jones, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-9566-9393 (2024) Modern Slavery Statements and UK Retail Supply Chains. In: The Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 525-540. ISBN 9783031586132

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Abstract

Modern slavery is an insidious problem in many sectors of the global economy, and it is perceived to be an issue in the retail industry. However, modern slavery in retail supply chains, has attracted little or no attention in the academic literature, and as such, this represents a gap in the current literature. This chapter looks to offer a small contribution to filling that gap by illustrating, and offering a commentary on, one of the ways in which the UK’s leading retailers have publicly addressed modern slavery in their supply chains, by reviewing their modern slavery statements. The commentary includes an outline of modern slavery and modern slavery statements, a description of the frame of reference and method of enquiry, a literature review, an exploratory review of the modern slavery statements developed by the UK’s ten leading retailers, a discussion of some of the academic and corporate implications raised by the review, and a conclusion which outlines some of the limitations of the work and suggestions for future research.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	modern slavery; modern slavery statements; UK retailers; supply chains; audit
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5387 Business Ethics H Social Sciences > HF Commerce > HF5001 Business > HF5428 Retail Trade
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Depositing User:	Anne Pengelly
Date Deposited:	01 Oct 2024 13:48
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 15:45
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14406

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