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Human Rights; Supply Chain; Disclosure; Survey Experiment; Empirical Legal Research
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The Limitations Of Supply Chain Disclosure Regimes, Adam S. Chilton, Galit A. Sarfaty
The Limitations Of Supply Chain Disclosure Regimes, Adam S. Chilton, Galit A. Sarfaty
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Although the past few decades have seen numerous cases of human rights violations within corporate supply chains, companies are frequently not held accountable for the abuses because there is a significant governance gap in the regulation of corporate activity abroad. In response, governments have begun to pass mandatory disclosure laws that require companies to release detailed information on their supply chains in the hopes that these laws will create pressure that will improve corporate accountability. In this paper, we argue that supply chain disclosure regimes are unlikely to have a large effect on consumer behavior, and as a result, their …