Caruana, R., Crane, A., Gold, S. et al. (1 more author) (2021) Modern slavery in business: The sad and sorry state of a non-field. Business & Society, 60 (2). pp. 251-287. ISSN 0007-6503
Abstract
“Modern slavery,” a term used to describe severe forms of labor exploitation, is beginning to spark growing interest within business and society research. As a novel phenomenon, it offers potential for innovative theoretical and empirical pathways to a range of business and management research questions. And yet, development into what we might call a “field” of modern slavery research in business and management remains significantly, and disappointingly, underdeveloped. To explore this, we elaborate on the developments to date, the potential drawbacks, and the possible future deviations that might evolve within six subdisciplinary areas of business and management. We also examine the value that nonmanagement disciplines can bring to research on modern slavery and business, examining the connections, critiques, and catalysts evident in research from political science, law, and history. These, we suggest, offer significant potential for building toward a more substantial subfield of research.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | business; forced labor; history; law; management; modern slavery; political science |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA UNSPECIFIED SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA 12R12580 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jun 2020 14:43 |
Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2021 15:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0007650320930417 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:162493 |