Figure 1
A diagram comparing two approaches to supply chain management, highlighting objectives, mechanisms, and impacts. The top section illustrates the traditional approach governed by patriarchal logics, with objectives of efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness. Mechanisms include cost reduction, on-demand production, small-batch ordering, and penalty-based supplier management. This leads to extreme production pressure, irregular and unstable orders, and incapacity to plan workload and workforce in factories, resulting in employment precarity, labor intensification, social-communal exclusion, and adverse material exposure for labor. The bottom section presents an alternative approach seen through the moral fabric, with objectives to acknowledge vulnerability, attend to relations, and avoid hurt. Mechanisms include recognizing the plurality of needs, valuing local knowledge and solutions, and adapting approaches to context. Reframing OSCM through the ethics of care. Source: Authors’ own work