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Social compliance refers to the extent to which organizations and their business partners adhere to established social standards, codes of conduct, and related requirements concerning workers’ rights, employment conditions, health and safety, and other social responsibilities ^[1][2]. It is particularly relevant to global supply chains, where firms may establish labor codes and monitoring systems to require suppliers to meet specified standards, including provisions on forced and child labor, discrimination, wages, working hours, freedom of association, and occupational safety ^[1][3]. Social compliance may involve internal policies, supplier requirements, social audits, corrective actions, and other mechanisms for assessing and improving adherence to these standards ^[2][4]. Compliance can be substantive when social standards are incorporated into organizational practices and working conditions, or symbolic when formal policies are adopted without corresponding changes in practice ^[1][4]. Social compliance is therefore concerned not only with the formal adoption of social standards but also with their implementation and integration into organizational and supply-chain practices.