L’ENTREPRISE RESPONSABLE DE SA CHAÎNE D’APPROVISIONNEMENT : ENTRE INJONCTION MILITANTE, INSTRUMENTATION GESTIONNAIRE ET PRODUCTION JURIDIQUE

Abstract

Based on a research program devoted to the construction of the responsibility of multinational companies for the damage caused in their supply chain, this article outlines a four-stage process: the 1990s and anti-sweatshop activism, the 2000s and the multiplication of CSR tools, the 2010s and the legalization of the duty of vigilance, finally the 2020s and the first jurisprudence. In doing so, the article invites us to go beyond an agonistic vision of the relationships between companies and activist movements, by highlighting the between these two worlds. It also invites us to entanglements going beyond a segmented vision of soft law and hard law, while underlining the porosity between these two types of instruments