TY - JOUR
T1 - Private and public co-operation in preventing and addressing corporate crime: the case of labour trafficking in the Finnish construction industry
AU - Davies, Jon
AU - Malik, Hanna Maria
AU - Jokinen, Anniina
AU - Haapasaari, Saara
PY - 2023/9/27
Y1 - 2023/9/27
N2 - Numerous corporate and state processes have long underpinned harms related to human trafficking and exploitation. A consequence of these processes has been a growing interest in how public and private sector organisations co-operate to address key challenges, including accountability for alleged exploitation. The purpose of this article is to examine these public-private sector dynamics in the Finnish construction industry, with a particular emphasis on how stakeholders respond to challenges associated with human trafficking, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the ‘grey economy’. The core argument developed is that despite a strong regulatory framework in Finnish construction, significant aspects of corporate compliance rely on companies’ voluntary efforts, whereby public sector authorities can have competing views of solutions to address trafficking and exploitation. This paper contributes to existing discussions within white-collar and corporate crime on the dynamics of CSR, and how these apply to the broader context of the grey economy.
AB - Numerous corporate and state processes have long underpinned harms related to human trafficking and exploitation. A consequence of these processes has been a growing interest in how public and private sector organisations co-operate to address key challenges, including accountability for alleged exploitation. The purpose of this article is to examine these public-private sector dynamics in the Finnish construction industry, with a particular emphasis on how stakeholders respond to challenges associated with human trafficking, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the ‘grey economy’. The core argument developed is that despite a strong regulatory framework in Finnish construction, significant aspects of corporate compliance rely on companies’ voluntary efforts, whereby public sector authorities can have competing views of solutions to address trafficking and exploitation. This paper contributes to existing discussions within white-collar and corporate crime on the dynamics of CSR, and how these apply to the broader context of the grey economy.
KW - Construction industry
KW - Corporate social responsibility
KW - Grey economy
KW - Human trafficking
KW - Multi-authority co-operation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85172660165&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10611-023-10110-0
DO - 10.1007/s10611-023-10110-0
M3 - Article
SN - 0925-4994
JO - Crime, Law and Social Change
JF - Crime, Law and Social Change
ER -