Gutierrez-Huerter O Gabriela, Gold Stefan, Trautrims Alexander
King's Business School, King's College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG UK.
Institute of Management and Business Studies, University of Kassel, Nora-Platiel-Str. 4, 34109 Kassel, Germany.
J Bus Ethics. 2023;182(1):35-58. doi: 10.1007/s10551-021-05013-w. Epub 2021 Dec 7.
This article shows how the ethical framing of the contemporary issue of modern slavery has evolved in UK construction, a sector in which there is a high risk of labor exploitation. It also examines how these framing dynamics have inhibited the emergence of a common framework of action to deal with the issue. We draw on both framing theory and the literature on the discursive construction of moral legitimacy. Our longitudinal analysis reveals that actors seeking to shape the debate bring their own moral schemes to justify and construct the legitimacy of their frames. Actors cluster their views around five evolving frames: human rights issue (later shifting to hidden crime), moral issue, management issue (later shifting to human moral obligation), social justice issue, and decent work issue-which promote particular normative evaluations of what the issue is, who is responsible, and recommendations for action. Our study contributes to a dynamic and political understanding of the meaning making of modern slavery. We identify the antecedents and conditions that have forestalled the emergence of new patterns of action to tackle modern slavery in the UK construction sector thereby evidencing the effects of the interplay of morally competing frames on field-level change.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10551-021-05013-w.
本文展示了现代奴隶制这一当代问题在英国建筑业中的伦理框架是如何演变的，该行业存在很高的劳动力剥削风险。它还考察了这些框架动态如何抑制了应对该问题的共同行动框架的出现。我们借鉴了框架理论和关于道德合法性话语建构的文献。我们的纵向分析表明，试图塑造这场辩论的行为者会带来他们自己的道德方案，以证明并构建其框架的合法性。行为者围绕五个不断演变的框架聚集他们的观点：人权问题（后来转变为隐蔽犯罪）、道德问题、管理问题（后来转变为人类道德义务）、社会正义问题和体面工作问题——这些框架促进了对该问题是什么、谁应负责以及行动建议的特定规范性评估。我们的研究有助于对现代奴隶制意义建构进行动态的、政治性的理解。我们确定了阻碍英国建筑业出现应对现代奴隶制新行动模式的前因和条件，从而证明了道德上相互竞争的框架之间的相互作用对行业层面变革的影响。
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