Regulatory Challenges and Gaps for Global Supply and Value Chains

Abstract

The panel presents interdisciplinary research perspectives on Global Supply and Value Chains (GSVC) and their emerging regulation. While the European Union seeks to influence human rights and sustainability standards in supply chains with the recently passed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD; Directive (EU) 2024/1760), a broader perspective on GSVCs shows a range of challenges that are only partly covered by the EU’s regulatory approach. GSVC regulation is closely related to evolving industrial policies and mostly ignores the impact of global crises on GSVCs, opaque GSVCs in the shadow economy as well as protest movements against GSVCs. These gaps and blind spots are likely to hamper the performance of the emerging regulatory regimes for GSVCs. The contributions to this panel look at these issues from an interdisciplinary political science, sociological and legal perspective. They are related to the Research Competence Centre: Challenges and Resilience of Global Supply and Value Chains funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; 2024-2029) as a research impulse and special research area based at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin).

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