Labour standards and regulation in global value chains

The case of the New Zealand Fishing Industry

Bibliographic Data

ID4139350
AuthorsChristina Stringer (0000-0001-7765-158X, Department of Management and International Business, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, corresponding author), Steve Hughes (Newcastle University Business School, UK), Steven J Hughes (0000-0002-5688-6942, Newcastle University), D Hugh Whittaker (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, The University of Oxford, UK), Nigel Haworth (Department of Management and International Business, The University of Auckland, New Zealand), Glenn Simmons (0000-0003-2081-5672, New Zealand Asia Institute, The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Year2016
Volume48
Issue10
Pages1910-1927
Publication date2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x16652397
OpenAlexW2529484934
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited36

Building on the concept of polarity in global value chains, we explore how the nature of the governance of a global value chain can evolve and how contingencies can reshape governance arrangements. A case-study of the New Zealand fishing industry highlights how parties inside and outside the global value chain came to contest labour standards, laying the base for credible regulation. In 2011 through a series of convergent events, migrant crew on board South Korean fishing vessels, hitherto exploited, abused and isolated, emerged as a significant actor to bring about a clear transition in the governance of a multipolar global value chain. In this paper, we analyse the series of events which led to regulatory change and consider whether the dynamics from the case offer lessons for improving labour standards and regulation in global value chains more generally

Business · CONTEST · Corporate governance · Crew · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Fishery · Fishing · Fishing industry · Global governance · Global value chain · Globalization · Industrial organization · Management · Market economy · Political science · Supply chain · Value chain · Engineering · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Marketing

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