Human Resource Management Technology Diffusion through Global Supply Chains: Buyer-directed Factory-based Health Care in India

Drusilla Brown (), Thomas Downes, Karen Eggleston and Ratna Kumari

World Development, 2009, vol. 37, issue 9, 1484-1493

Abstract: Summary We examine the role that buyers in global supply chains play in helping vendors uncover productivity-enhancing labor management innovations. We report on a buyer-directed NGO-coordinated factory-based program targeting intestinal parasites and anemia in seven Bangalore apparel factories. Raw pre-post productivity comparisons were confounded by factory organizational changes that were implemented in anticipation of the termination of the Multi Fiber Arrangement (MFA). Using a difference-in-difference-in-difference (DDD) estimator, a full complement of medically appropriate treatment was found to increase individual productivity of anemic workers by 8% relative to non-anemic workers.

Keywords: corporate; social; responsibility; anemia; parasites; apparel; productivity; Albendazole; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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