TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - Modern Slavery as a Management Practice: Exploring the Conditions and Capabilities for Human Exploitation JO - Academy of management review A1 - Crane, Andrew SP - 49 EP - 69 VL - 38 IS - 1 N2 - Scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of modern slavery in the management literature. This article redresses this by identifying modern slavery as a management practice comprising exploiting/insulating capabilities and sustaining/shaping capabilities. I present a model specifying how these microorganization-level capabilities enable enterprises that deploy slavery to take advantage of the macro-institutional conditions that permit the practice to flourish in the face of widespread illegality and illegitimacy. I then advance potential implications for management theory and suggestions for further theoretical and empirical research.

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