Maritime Value Chains and Liability for Work Injuries
CEPRI Studies on Private Governance, Issue 7/2022
26 Pages Posted: 11 Apr 2023
Date Written: 2022
Abstract
Over the past decade, global value chains have increasingly attracted attention. Thus, for big and powerful companies, typically based in the Global North, outsourcing of production to the Global South has become a common business model. Outsourcing takes place through various company structures or through contract. Thus, a global value chain may consist of parent companies outsourcing tasks to both subsidiaries and contractual partners. The outsourcing model has drawn attention to the conditions under which the supplies and services are provided and to the environmental consequences of the production. In other words, the production methods used in the global value chain have attracted attention and revived an interest in the concept of ‘corporate social responsibility’ (CSR), sometimes through major disasters, such as the one in Bangladesh in 2013, where a factory building collapsed, killing over a thousand people. This case drew attention to the question of the possible liability of the outsourcing company for work injuries in the value chain.
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