Assessing the Social Impact of Corporations: Evidence from Management Control Interventions in the Supply Chain to Increase Worker Wages

时间：2021年11月30日（周二）10:30-noon

主持人：余淼杰、余昌华

主讲人：Gregory Distelhorst, University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman School of Management

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摘要：Do “corporate social responsibility” programs in global supply chains produce measurable social impacts? This study estimates the effects of management control interventions to increase worker wages at factories supplying a multinational garment retailer. Difference-in-differences estimates based on eight years of data from over 1,800 factories in nine developing countries show that the interventions were associated with an average wage increase of approximately 5 percent over the three years following their implementation. The programs were highly cost-effective; the intervention-associated wage increase was many times greater than if the invested financial resources were instead paid directly to the affected workers. Supplier factories that participated in the wage programs also saw large increases in units ordered from the multinational retailer. Further analyses shed light on contextual factors that influence the effectiveness of the wage interventions, including the presence of trade unions and a measure of supplier quality. These findings have managerial implications for the design of management control interventions for social impact in global supply chains.

主讲人简介：Gregory Distelhorst is now an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, appointed at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Rotman School of Management. He is also an investigator with The Governance Project at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Since Distelhorst lived in mainland China for five years, he has a deep understanding of China’s society and economy.

Distelhorst’s research mainly focuses on multinational business and worker rights, as well as politics and policy in contemporary China. It appears in peer-reviewed social science journals including the Management Science, the Journal of Politics, the Perspectives on Politics, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, etc.