Research on managing working conditions in the supply chain is currently conducted under umbrella of “social” sustainability. In this introduction to 2021 Emerging Discourse Incubator, “Managing Working Conditions Supply Chains: Towards Decent Work,” we argue that trajectory research may be insufficient for addressing decent work. This due four characteristics extant literature—buyer-centrism, ...

In his 1995 introduction to Marxism and Christianity, Alasdair MacIntyre claimed that Marxism ‘is the only secular post-enlightenment doctrine to have’ a metaphysical and moral scope comparable to that of Christianity. This was not meant as a mere academic point, for Marxism: An Interpretation (the title of the first, 1953, edition of Marxism and Christianity) was written as a contribution to w...

The competition inherent to globalisation has led enterprises to gather in nests of specialised business providers with the purpose of building better applications and provide more complete solutions. This, added to the improvements on the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), led to a paradigm shift from product-centrism to service-centrism and to the need to communicate and inter...

This paper presents a general approach to the analysis of categorical panel data which is based on using causal log-linear models with latent variables. Like the well-known LISREL model, these models consist of a structural and a measurement part. In the structural part, a system of logit equations is used to explain changes which occur in the dependent variable of interest. An unrestricted or ...