Globalization and paradoxes of Ethical Transnational Production: Code of Conduct in a Chinese Workplace.

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audit culture, civic activism, code of conduct, commodity chains, corporate social responsibility, Chinese workplace

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Globalization and paradoxes of Ethical Transnational Production: Code of Conduct in a Chinese Workplace. / Sum, Ngai-Ling; Ngai, Pun.
In: Competition and Change, Vol. 9, No. 2, 06.2005, p. 181-200.

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abstract = "This paper examines the transfer of company and multi-stakeholder codes of conduct from developed to developing countries. This requires the involvement of subcontractors and NGOs in developing countries. This moving of ethical codes to developing countries condenses and reproduces, under the twin pressures of competitiveness and social auditing, the paradoxes of ethical transnational production in the international organizations of local firms. This paradoxes are demonstrated from a case study of a workplace in China. The paper ends by outlining three paradoxes and commenting on the development of a managerialist 'audit culture' in workplace practices as commodification of ethical codes.",

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