Journal articles
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Ang Y, 'Partners in Social Entrepreneurship: A UK's Approach to Buyer's Risk Externalities'
International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal (2017)
ISSN: 1388-7084
Abstract This article advances the idea that social entrepreneurship is achievable through partners working together within a supply chain. Following the 2008 economic crisis, three business trends have emerged in the UK-First, there is an increase in outsourcing activities. Second, recent UK laws have created an atypical workforce mostly composed of women. Third, there is an increase in social enterprises. This article highlights that the creation of buyer’s risk-externalities underpins these three trends’ modus operandi. Risk-externalities are the risks which businesses pass onto others in the attempt to reduce costs and burdens. Some businesses profit in this kind of environment. However, there are instances of adversities particular in the low-skilled labour sector where workers, especially women, are vulnerable to such externalities. These individuals are in the atypical workforce which is composed of zero-hours workers, fixed-term workers and agency workers. It is argued in this article that all atypical workers ought to have their interests protected because their struggles will ultimately become the community’s struggles. It is advanced here that the society’s fabric begins with the low-skilled workforce’s protection. Businesses ought to play a substantial role in maintaining society’s fabric through forming partners in social entrepreneurship.
Book chapters
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Ang YS, 'Exploring Spatial Justice and the Ethic of Care in Corporations and Group Governance' in Beate Sjafjell and Irene Lynch Fannon (ed.), Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change, Cambridge University Press (2017)
ISBN: 978-1108427111 eISBN: 9781316998472
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Ang Y, 'A Tale of Outsourcing: The Enhanced Presence and Absence of Law through the Senses' in Sarah Marusek (ed.), Synesthetic Legalities, Routledge (2017)
ISBN: 9781472482952
Abstract This chapter tells a tale of outsourcing through a synesthetic experience where the reader feels law’s presence and law’s absence. Outsourcing is defined as “contracting with a thirdparty supplier for the management and completion of a certain amount of work, for a specified length of time, cost and level of service.” For example, an apparel retailer outsources its manufacturing tasks to external factory owners. An outsourcing agreement creates a supply chain. Law governs this supply chain in various degrees. In a value-added supply chain such as technology, research and development, and financial services, governance is strong. In a labor-intensive or a low-value supply chain, governance is neither strong nor effective.Website
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Yue S. Ang, 'Ethical Outsourcing and the Act of Acting Together' in Ruth Wolf (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Theodora Issa (Curtin University, Australia) and Monica Thiel (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) (ed.), Empowering Organizations through Corporate Social Responsibility, IGI GLobal (2015)
ISBN: 9781466672949 eISBN: 9781466672956
Abstract The European Commission (2011) defines Corporate Social Responsibility as “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis” (p. 3). Outsourcing affects the interests of laborers and ethical outsourcing protects their interests through the act of acting together, ensuring that labor protection is a shared responsibility between the participants. An aspect of social philosophy helps rectify this problem by introducing ethical outsourcing that occurs upon fulfilling the combination of three features: (1) the inclusion of all participants in a joint activity, (2) all participants agree to enter into a multi-lateral agreement, (3) the voluntarism of each participant practicing CSR is strengthened by the peer-to-peer demands of fulfilling these obligations. This chapter proposes that business leaders must find incentives engaging their outsourcing participants in multi-lateral contractual agreements. The empowerment of the participating organizations is incentivizing because of the engagement in participatory decision-making through the act of acting together.Website
Yue Ang, ‘Exploring Spatial Justice and the Ethic of Care in Corporations and Corporate Group Governance’ in Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch Fannon (Editors) Creating Corporate Sustainability: Gender as an Agent for Change (CUP, 2017).
Yue Ang, ‘Partners in Social Entrepreneurship: A UK Approach to Buyer’s Risk Externalities’ International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal (2017) Vol. 2, Issue 2, 12-35.
Yue Ang, ‘A Tale of Outsourcing: The Enhanced Presence and Absence of Law through the Senses’ in S. Marusek (Editor), Synesthetic Legalities: Sensory Dimensions of Law and Jurisprudence (Routledge, 2017).
Yue S. Ang, ‘Ethical Outsourcing and the Act of Acting Together’ in R. Wolf, T. Issa and M. Thiel (Editors), Empowering Organisations through Corporate Social Responsibility (IGI, 2015)
Four entries contributed to S. Idowu, C. Nicholas. M Fifka, L Zu and R Schmidpeter (Editors), Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance (Springer, 2015)
Yue S. Ang, ‘Outsource to Asia: How Multinational Corporations Legitimately Forget Corporate Social Responsibility’ in P. Low, S. Idowu, S.L. Ang (Editors), Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia: Practice and Experience (Springer, 2013)
Yue S. Ang, Patrick Low and Sik-Liong Ang, ‘Corporate Social Obligation and Corporate Social Responsibility’ in S. Idowu, N. Capaldi, L. Zu and A. Das Gupta (Editors), Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (Springer, 2013)