Panel “Regulatory Challenges and Gaps for Global Supply and Value Chains”
Panel of the Research Competence Centre at the Biennial Conference of the Standing Group on Regulatory Governance
Speakers: Hartmut Aden, Tamara Dangelmaier, Christian Hilpert, Christina Teipen, Markus Schultze-Kraft
Date & Time: 12 June 2025, 11:00-12:30
Location: Hertie School, Room 3.01
The panel presents interdisciplinary research perspectives on Global Supply and Value Chains (GSVC) and their emerging regulation. While the European Union seeks to influence human rights and sustainability standards in supply chains with the recently passed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD; Directive (EU) 2024/1760), a broader perspective on GSVCs shows a range of challenges that are only partly covered by the EU’s regulatory approach. GSVC regulation is closely related to evolving industrial policies and mostly ignores the impact of global crises on GSVCs, opaque GSVCs in the shadow economy as well as protest movements against GSVCs. These gaps and blind spots are likely to hamper the performance of the emerging regulatory regimes for GSVCs. The contributions to this panel look at these issues from an interdisciplinary political science, sociological and legal perspective. They are related to the Research Competence Centre: Challenges and Resilience of Global Supply and Value Chains funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; 2024-2029) as a research impulse and special research area based at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin).
Conference Papers:
- Asymmetric North-South State Capabilities: Industrial Policies in the Automotive Global Value Chains
- Political discourse and regulatory challenges of threats to supply chains in the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine
- Resilience, Regulation, and Resistance: A Sociological Perspective on Supply Chains and Amazonian Deforestation
- Establishing New Complaints Mechanisms for Supply Chain Due Diligence
- Beyond regulation? Opacity in global value chains
You can find more information on the panel and included papers on the conference website.