Zilinskaite, M., Hajro, A. orcid.org/0000-0001-8688-5732, Baldassari, P. et al. (1 more author) (2025) Migration, Human Supply Chains, and the Multinational Enterprise: Confronting an Overlooked Global Mobility Challenge. Human Resource Management Journal. ISSN 0954-5395
Abstract
Over the past 2 decades, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have significantly increased their reliance on migrant workers in lower-skilled jobs within global supply chains (GSCs)—a phenomenon largely overlooked in global mobility scholarship. In this provocation paper, we aim to broaden the scope of traditional debates in this field by introducing the concept of human supply chains, originally coined by labor-law scholar Jennifer Gordon (2017). We adapt and extend this concept to focus on MNEs as research targets, defining it through the policies and/or practices aimed at transnational labor recruitment, management, and retention applied to migrant workforces in their GSCs. We advocate for the need to engage with this critical topic in global mobility research and outline key pathways for future inquiry.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | global mobility, global supply chains, human supply chains, migrant workers, migration, multinational enterprise |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2025 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2025 10:59 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1748-8583.12592 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:222638 |