... Also, where labor exploitation is discussed in the subdomains of the management field, these tend to use a range of discipline-based units of analysis and analytical categories. Examples include, but are not limited to, the (pyramid) or multilayered system of labor contracting and intermediation (Barrientos, 2013); outsourcing and supply chain strategies (Gold, Trautrims, & Trodd, 2015;Gordon, 2015;New, 2015;Silvestre, Viana, & de Sousa Monteiro, 2020;Soundararajan, Khan, & Tarba, 2018;Soundararajan, Wilhelm, & Crane, 2021); global value chains (Clarke & Boersma, 2017;Gereffi, Humphrey, & Sturgeon, 2005;Stringer et al., 2021); global production networks (Barrientos, 2008;Henderson, Dicken, Hess, Coe, & Yeung, 2002); labor supply chains (Barrientos, 2013;Gordon, 2017); precarity chains (Alberti, Holgate, & Tapia, 2013;Silvey & Parreñas, 2020); recruitment chains (Verma, 2020); and triangular employment relationships (Barrientos, 2013;Crane, LeBaron, Allain, & Behbahani, 2019;Gold et al., 2015;New, 2015;Stringer et al., 2021). Although deception is recognized, therefore, to be an integral part of the organization of labor for human exploitation in the management literature (Crane, 2013;Crane et al., 2022;Shepherd, Parida, Williams, & Wincent, 2022;Stringer, Whittaker, & Simmons, 2016), the topic of recruitment deception is not explicitly theorized. ...