The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Uses Ensemble Storytelling Processes to Overcome Enslavement in Corporate Supply Chains

Autor: Mabel Sanchez, Grace Ann Rosile, Richard Herder, David M. Boje
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Rolile, G A, Boje, D M, Herder, R A & Sanchez, M 2021, ' The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Uses Ensemble Storytelling Processes to Overcome Enslavement in Corporate Supply Chains ', Business & Society, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 376-414 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650320930416
ISSN: 1552-4205
0007-6503
DOI: 10.1177/0007650320930416
Popis: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) has successfully combated modern-day slavery by transforming the ways that over a dozen major brands, including Taco Bell, Subway, and Wal-Mart, manage their supply chains. The CIW’s efforts over more than 20 years have effectively stopped enslavement practices, including abuses such as wage theft and peonage indebtedness. We conducted a field ethnography, interviews, and archival analyses to understand this success. We find that the CIW employs a decentered, egalitarian, and ensemble approach to their multiplicities of alliances by collectively “animating” themselves and their partners through ensemble leadership. This combination of alliances, along with worker-driven monitoring, brings life to the CIW motto “We are all leaders.” Translating this motto into daily practice is how the CIW virtually eradicates enslavement practices in corporate supply chains.
Databáze: OpenAIRE