Organisational responses to mandatory modern slavery disclosure legislation: a failure of experimentalist governance?

What is it about?

Universities, like all organisations considered commercial, are expected to annually report on the actions they have taken to mitigate the risk of modern slavery in their supply chains under the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. We show that they have largely been unable to do this because of how higher education, unlike private companies, purchase goods and services through collective agreements, questioning the validity of this legislation to the sector.

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