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Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors. Michael Toffel, February 9, 2014, Paper. "Supply chain auditors provide companies with strategic information about the practices of suppliers, yet little is known of what influences auditors’ ability to identify and report dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at factories. Drawing on insights from the literatures on street-level bureaucracy and on regulatory and audit design, we theorize and investigate the factors that shape the practices of private supply chain auditors..." verified June 19, 2014