Sarah Vandenbroucke
Promovendus
- Naam
- S.E.M. Vandenbroucke LLM
- Telefoon
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.e.m.vandenbroucke@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3224-4793
Titel onderzoek: Compliance with fundamental labor rights through codes of conduct in the global supply chain.
Sarah Vandenbroucke is a promovendus at the department of Business studies at Leiden Law School since March 2020. She pursued her bachelor’s degree in law in France (Lille), then obtained a Master in European Law from Leiden Law School in 2017 and a Master in European Labor Studies from Amsterdam Graduate School of Social Sciences in 2018. Before joining Leiden University, she worked in New Delhi (India) for the ILO regional office for South Asia.
In her research, Sarah Vandenbroucke addresses the topics of Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics, and the effectiveness of corporate self-regulation to implement fundamental labor rights. The title of her PhD project is “Compliance with fundamental labor rights through codes of conduct in the global supply chain”. It observes the impact of codes of conduct in practice on the conditions of work in the multinationals’ supply chains.
This PhD is conducted in Empirical Legal Studies, involving quantitative and qualitative methodologies of research. With a background in law and in sociology, Sarah Vandenbroucke alternates discipline to answer her research questions and analyze practical implications of the adoption of codes of conducts. The data collected for this research are compiled in the Database of Business Ethics developed by Leiden University.
Promovendus
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut Fiscale en Economische vakken
- Bedrijfswetenschappen
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M., Kantorowicz J.J. & Erkens M.Y.H.G. (2024), Decoding supplier codes of conduct with content and text as data approaches, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management 31(1): 472-492.
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M., Pluut H., Erkens M.Y.H.G. & Kantorowicz J.J. (2024), Do companies walk the talk?: Commitments and actions in global supply chain labor standards, International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility 9: 17.
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (2024), The portrayal of effectiveness of supplier codes of conduct in improving labor conditions in global supply chains: A systematic review of the literature, Regulation & Governance 18(1): 307-327.
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (2023), Codes of conduct, a tool to regulate supply chain labor practices?. In: Erkens M.Y.H.G., Groot C. de & Oostrum C.H.A. van (red.), Panta Rhei: recht en duurzaamheid. Den Haag: Boom Juridisch. 31-46.
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M., Verdoes T.L.M. & Vriesendorp R.D. (24 november 2023), Embracing a new paradigm: a corporate shift towards (social) sustainability. Leiden Law Blog. Leiden: Leiden University (Leiden University). [blog].
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (24 februari 2023), Are supplier codes of conduct effective?. Database of Business Ethics. Leiden: Leiden Law School. [blog].
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (2021), Transparence et information: des facteurs nécessaires pour la promotion des investissements éthiques. In: Maurel R. (red.), Le droit international des investissements au prisme de l'éthique. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Droit des Marchés et des Investissements Internationaux nr. 58: LexisNexis.
- Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (24 november 2020), Uyghur forced labour: Who will take a stand?. Leiden Law Blog. [blog].
- Maurel R., Caron M. & Vandenbroucke S.E.M. (19 juni 2020), Le monde d'après nécessite d'inventer une éthique mondiale des affaires. Huffington Post [French edition]. [blog].
- Participation to a research think tank on public ethics in France.