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dc.contributor.authorReinecke, Juliane
dc.contributor.authorDonaghey, Jimmy
dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorWood, Geoffrey
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-05T12:32:59Z
dc.date.available2019-07-05T12:32:59Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn0018-7267
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0018726718756497
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/380403
dc.description.abstractGlobal 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom459
dc.relation.ispartofpageto480
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHuman Relations
dc.relation.ispartofvolume71
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman resources and industrial relations
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3505
dc.titleGlobal supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundaries
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyrightJuliane Reinecke et al, Global supply chains and social relations at work: Brokering across boundarie, Evaluation, 2018, Vol. 71(4) 459–480. Copyright 2018 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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gro.griffith.authorWilkinson, Adrian J.


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