Although firms in diverse industries increasingly adopt private regulation of labor standards for workers in their global supply chains, growing scholarly evidence suggests that this approach has not generated sustainable improvements in working conditions for those workers. The authors draw on recent developments in institutional theory regarding the development of opaque institutional fields that cause the decoupling between practices and outcomes to develop a new explanation for the lack of sustainable improvement in labor practices in supply chains. Using qualitative and quantitative data from a global apparel supplier and a global home products retailer, they demonstrate the various ways in which opacity causes decoupling between private regulation practices of global firms and outcomes for workers in supply chains.

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现场不透明度与实践结果的脱钩：全球供应链中劳动标准的私人监管

尽管各行各业的公司越来越多地对其全球供应链中的工人采用劳工标准的私人监管，但越来越多的学术证据表明，这种方法并未为这些工人带来可持续的工作条件改善。作者借鉴了有关不透明的制度领域的发展的制度理论的最新发展，这种制度领域导致实践与结果之间的脱钩，从而为供应链中的劳动实践缺乏可持续的改进提供了新的解释。他们使用来自全球服装供应商和全球家居产品零售商的定性和定量数据，展示了不透明性导致全球公司的私人监管实践与供应链中的工人的结果脱钩的各种方式。