Innovation and Governance in the Digital Era: Exploring the Complexities of the Digital Supply Chain

Title

Innovation and Governance in the Digital Era: Exploring the Complexities of the Digital Supply Chain

Creator

Dsouza, Salu; Bodrov, Nikolay

Description

This chapter investigates multiple factors and dynamics related to the digital supply chain and the involvement of national institutions, government authorities, and various stakeholders. In the highly advanced era of technological innovations and globalization, the digital supply chain has become decisive for modern economies. An interdisciplinary focus addresses the implications of digitalization for female workers, industrialization tendencies, global supply chains, and the enforcement of corporate codes of conduct. Given that modern digital technologies alter traditionally accepted methods of production and supply, it is important to understand the social and economic effects on female workers and the changes in opportunities and conditions for them at the current point. The purpose of the current research is to identify gender gaps and access to working opportunities and investigate the role national institutional frameworks and government authorities play in supporting womens empowerment in the digital supply chain. Primarily, the chapter aims at assessing the implications of digitalization on industrialization in the developed and developing world. Additional focus will be made on the opportunities and obstacles associated with automation, data analytics, or artificial intelligence, and ways of applying them to ensure sustainable development. Case studies and empirical research are likely to offer a comprehensive picture of the strategies governments, international organizations, and stakeholders can use to address the challenges of digital industrialization and address issues of social equity and just exposure to the opportunities opened through innovative tools and techniques. The relatively new concept of globalization is also closely connected to digital tools and technologies that are believed to facilitate the flow of goods and services and improve the conditions for efficient and fast supplies. However, on the other hand, global chains of supply are associated with specific challenges, such as disruptions or surveillance. Digitalization is also likely to boost unethical behavior and human rights violations. Hence, an important achievement of the current chapter is to investigate the interaction between digitalization and global supply chains and provide suggestions for the collaborative governance strategies that would promote openness, transparency, and better interaction. An alternative idea for the research is the evaluation of the efficiency of corporate codes of conduct employed to address human, civil, or product rights violations and guarantee consistency with environmental standards or regulations. To accomplish the goal, the chapter will focus on the evidence available to investigate the enforcement strategies and monitoring programs or approaches that companies rely on. An analysis of these two options is likely to result in a comprehensive understanding of the roles government authorities, institutions or organizations, and stakeholders play in preserving just working conditions and ethical standards in digital supply management. A tendency to consider the critical effects of digitalization on different administrative levels and stakeholders can be observed. That is why it is important to concentrate on the contributions of such approaches and the development of joint policies to ensure a balance between receiving the benefits of digitalization and avoiding its detrimental effects. 2025 selection and editorial matter, Saurabh Tiwari and Richa Goel; individual chapters, the contributors.

Source

Sustainable Supply Chains and Digital Transformation;pp.193-215

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

CRC Press

Coverage

Dsouza S., School of Law, Christ University, Lavasa, India; Bodrov N., Department of Forensic Science, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 978-104040758-5; 978-103276048-3;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003477242_14

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