Codes de conduite et droit d'association : une étude exploratoire du secteur du textile
The globalised economy has transformed the traditional corporation into a worldwide network of producers connected by contracts. In light of certain abuses committed by multinational corporations, corporations and civil society have developed regulatory mechanisms including private codes of conduct. The purpose of this study is to determine for which workers the codes of conduct were developed: the workers of the country of origin of the corporation (generally located in developed countries) or the workers of the countries of production (generally located in developing countries). By comparing the content of the codes of conduct of Nike, Gap and Levi-Strauss regarding freedom of association with the observations of the International Labour Organisation for the United-States, India and Bangladesh, we identified a certain number of gaps between the content of the codes and the needs of the workers. In the last part of the study, we widened our research question to determine whether or not the codes might be destined to people other than the workers, namely consumers, shareholders or the corporation itself.
multinational corporations corporate social responsibility codes of conduct freedom of association collective bargaining internormativity