The powers of a social auditor in a global production network: the case of Verité and the exposure of forced labour in the electronics industry
研究了社会审计组织Verité如何运用多种显性和隐性权力，揭露马来西亚电子行业的强迫劳动，并推动行业劳动治理变革，对关注全球供应链治理和劳工权益的学者有参考价值。
Abstract Research on labour governance actors in global production networks (GPNs) has been limited to civil society organisations, firms and governments. Understanding the influence of actors in GPNs has been dealt with singular and overt modes of relational power. This paper contributes to both debates by examining an intermediary actor—the social auditing organisation Verité—and its exercise of multiple modes of overt and covert powers to illustrate the complex terrain of change in GPNs. Verité, whose exposure of forced labour in Malaysian electronics subsequently changed labour governance practices in the electronics industry, mobilised power resources of credible information to exercise powers of expert authority and acts of dissimulation across various networked relationships in the GPN. This paper puts forth a multi-power framework of analysis to understand the micro-politics of GPNs.