Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Global Supply Chains

CSR is discussed in different academic disciplines such as Management Studies, Politics and Law, and as a result, this project is highly interdisciplinary in nature. With the growing importance of CSR, many companies have adopted CSR standards pledging to conduct business in a responsible manner.

This project analyses regulatory approaches to CSR and, in particular, in the interaction between private and public regulatory mechanisms and their contribution to hybrid regulatory models of promoting CSR in global supply chains. In the short-term, this project will result in a paper on the Modern Slavery Bill, which will inform further research initiatives going forward focusing on the the regulatory role of the home state of multinational enterprises in promoting greater CSR.