Supply Chain Transparency: Comparative Analysis on Government Policy and NGO Advocacy
Abstract
Slavery and Human Trafficking are crimes under state, federal, and international law.
Legislative efforts have been made to address the market for goods and products tainted by slavery
and trafficking by providing transparency for consumers, in hopes that
the consumer will make
social conscious decisions.
This
capstone is a policy analysis on the
California Transparency in
Supply Chains Act of 2010
. The research
focuses on
the effectiveness of a state
-
run policy on
supply chain transparency and whether th
ere is a relationship with top performing companies and
compliance with labor stand
ards in their supply chains. This
research
examines
the compliance
provisions and requirements in the state
-
run policy in comparison to Non Government
Organizations Advocacy
. This research aims to determine whether the provision of law, simply
stating transparency, is an effective policy aimed to educate the consumer on violations of human
-
trafficking and forced labor within a supply chain.
The findings in this study support
that companies
are
compliant
with the law, but compliance does not effectively inform the consumer of labor
violations within the supply chain. Based on the comparison with best practices from NGO’s, the
law can be expanded to better educate the consumer
in increasing transparency through publishing
independent assessments of suppliers, factory visiting tracking charts, and ranking systems.
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- MA in Policy Studies [178]