CHAINS OF RESPONSIBILITY - Human Rights and the Limits of Supply Chain Governance

Supply chains stretch across borders, factories, and jurisdictions until responsibility becomes both everywhere and nowhere at once. This book traces that distance with clarity and force. Moving beyond procedural compliance, it offers a rigorous account of power, value distribution, and the structural injustice that keeps harm just far enough away to ignore. The analysis puts governance theory in direct conversation with the frameworks that shape the field today. Ruggie's governance gap, Young's social connection model, and Gereffi's value chain typology sit alongside a close reading of the EU's Omnibus I amendments against the original CSDDD text, the UN Guiding Principles, and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance. This book asks what responsibility means once harm is built into the chain itself and how far down that chain it can still reach. There is no tier too deep for responsibility to reach!