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Matthew Amengual is an Associate Professor in International Business at the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School. Before joining Oxford, he was an Associate Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan.
Broadly, he investigates the politics of promoting economic development that is both equitable and sustainable. He has studied labor regulation in global supply chains for over a decade and continues to conduct research on how to improve working conditions in supplier factories around the world. His first book, Politicized Enforcement in Argentina: Labor and Environmental Regulation, published by Cambridge University Press, investigates the politics of enforcement in contexts of weak institutions. His second book project is on the local politics of mining in Latin America, exploring the varying outcomes of direct contestation between social actors and firms over the employment, contracts, and public goods provision. Books Politicized Enforcement in Argentina: Labor and Environmental Regulation Cambridge University Press 2016 Excerpt of Introduction Reviews: Journal of Politics, Industrial & Labor Relations Review. Direct Contestation Book Manuscript in Progress, summary available upon request Completed Working Papers Making Ratings Work: Causal Evidence from Private Regulation of Labor Rights, with Greg Distelhorst Should organizations express prosocial or instrumental motives to get employees to adopt “win-win” behaviors?, with Evan Apfelbaum (contact for copy) Published Articles Global Purchasing as Labor Regulation: The Missing Middle, with Greg Distelhorst & Danny Tobin. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, conditionally accepted (contact for copy). Buying Stability: The Distributive Outcomes of Firm Responses to Risk in the Bolivian Mining Industry winner of the Best Paper Prize at REPAL World Development, Vol. 104, April, 2018 Who Opposes Labor Regulation? Explaining Variation in Employers’ Opinions with Salo Coslovsky & Duanyi Yang Regulation & Governance, Vol, 11, No. 4. 2017 Co-enforcing Labor Standards: The Unique Contributions of State and Worker Organizations in Argentina and the United States with Janice Fine Regulation & Governance, Vol, 11, No. 2., 2017. Reinforcing the State: Transnational and State Labor Regulation in Indonesia with Laura Chirot Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 69, No. 5. 2016. Pathways to Enforcement: Labor Inspectors Leveraging Linkages with Society in Argentina Industrial and Labor Relations Review Vol. 67, No. 1, 2014 Pollution in the Garden of the Argentine Republic: Building State Capacity to Escape from Chaotic Regulation Politics & Society. Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 526-559, 2013 Complementary Labor Regulation: The Uncoordinated Combination of State and Private Regulators in the Dominican Republic World Development, Vol. 38, No. 3, 405-414, 2010 Virtue out of Necessity?: Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains with Richard Locke and Akshay Mangla Politics & Society, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 319-351, 2009 Norms of deliberation: An inductive study with Jane Mansbridge, Janette Hartz-Karp, and John Gastil Journal of Public Deliberation Vol 2, No. 1. 2006 |