题目: Broken links, broken right? Investigating the association between supply chain disruptions and labor rights violations
时间: 2025年 04月22日(周二) 9:00-10:30
地点: 管理学院 A423
主讲人: 孔庆霞 Erasmus University, 鹿特丹管理学院副教授
主持人: 张政，浙江大学管理学院“百人计划研究员”
主讲人简介：
Dr. Qingxia Kong is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. After completing her Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, she worked as an assistant professor of Operations at Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago de Chile. She joined Erasmus University in 2016. Kong's research interests are healthcare operations management, medical decision making, and behavioral operations.
讲座摘要:
Global supply chain disruptions pose significant operational challenges, yet their impact on labor rights remains understudied. This study investigates how disruptions influence the frequency and severity of employment violations using a comprehensive dataset from 2000–2021, combining disruption announcements, employment violation records, and firm-level governance data. Employing a staggered difference-in-differences approach with propensity score matching, we analyze violations pre- and post-disruption for both treated and control firms. Results indicate that supply chain disruptions are associated with a significant increase (β = 0.76, p <0.01) in the likelihood of violations occurrences, but a reduction (β = -0.284, p <0.01) in the number of employment violation cases and no statistically significant relationship is observed with the severity of violations (β = 0.29, p =0.196). Robustness tests involving alternative matching methods, dependent variable measures, observation windows and placebo test confirm these findings. Mechanism analyses show that disruptions significantly raise the frequency of non-discrimination violations (such as wage theft and safety breaches) and intensify the severity of discrimination-related violations. Firms with a history of violations experience a higher likelihood but fewer total violations following disruptions. Additionally, labor-intensive firms, particularly those with high labor intensity, face an increased likelihood of violations but exhibit a decrease in the total number of violations. These findings contribute essential insights into the complex dynamics between operational disruptions and labor rights, providing practical strategies for firms to proactively manage labor compliance risks during periods of supply chain instability.
