Scant attention has been paid to the phenomenon of modern slavery in the management literature. This paper redresses … this by identifying modern slavery as a management practice, comprising exploiting/insulating capabilities and sustaining … slavery to take advantage of the macro institutional conditions that permit the practice to flourish in the face of widespread …

, slavery, and polygyny. I then use crosssectional data on pre-colonial African societies to demonstrate that, consistent with … the model, the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny occurred in those parts of Africa that were the most …

This study develops a socio-technical model to understand the tolerance level of modern slavery in firms across supply … modern slavery. We have combined agent-based simulation on networks, adopting a complex system perspective, with discrete … level as a function of network pressures to model tolerance of modern slavery in supply chain network. In this theory paper …