Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

Whose Standards? Whose Development?
Herausgeber: Reed, Ananya; Utting, Peter; Reed, Darryl

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The emergence of an increasingly global economy has involved changes in production, improvements in technology, and the liberalization of international trade and finance. Critics of neoliberalism are concerned that in the new economic environment, many firms do not act responsibly, failing to play by the spirit of market rules or to live up to their obligations to key stakeholder groups. Furthermore there is not the same economic institutions and legal frameworks in place in the international realm that we have in the domestic realm to ensure that the economy functions in line with basic principles of market competition. In this context of contestation about the desirability of the neoliberal variant of globalization, there has been a sharp rise of non-state regulatory initiatives. This book investigates the manner in which and the degree to which non-state initiatives that regulate the activities of business contribute to inclusive development, especially the development prospects of the most vulnerable sectors of society. The collection includes a variety of individual cases as well as some theoretical and comparative pieces.

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This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780415593113
• ISBN-10: 0415593115
• Artikelnr.: 33761907

Autorenporträt

Darryl Reed is Associate Professor in the Business and Society Program at York University, Canada. Peter Utting is Deputy Director at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Ananya Mukherjee-Reed is Professor, Department of Political Science at York University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Multistakeholder Regulation in a Development Perspective
Peter Utting 1. Development and the Problematic of Non-State Regulation
Darryl Reed 2. Activism, Business Regulation and Development Peter Utting
3. Assessing the ETI Codes of Labour Practice Stephane Barrientos and
Sally Smith 4. Social Accountability 8000 and Socioeconomic Development
Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert 5. The International Organizaiton
for Standardization Stepan Wood 6. The United Nations Global Compact and
Development Catia Gregoratti 7. The Global Reporting Initiative: Promise
and Limitations David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown 8. Balanço Social
and Sustainability Reporting in Brazil Eduardo R. Gomes and Ana Maria
Kirschner 9. The Forest Stewardship Council Graeme Auld and Benjamin
Cashore 10. The Marine Stewardship Council Graeme Auld 11. The Global
G.A.P. Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs 12. Global Retail Accululation
Strategies and Wal-Mart's CSR Regime Ngai-Ling Sum 13. Applying the Atlanta
Agreement on Child Labour in South Asia Peter Lund-Thomsen and Khalid Nadvi
14. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Carola Kantz 15.
Blood Diamonds, Non-State Actors and Development: The Kimberley Process and
Beyond Ian Smillie 16. Peoples' Tribunals in Latin America Marcelo Saguier
17. The Worker Rights Consortium Don Wells 18. International Framework
Agreements and Development Nikolaus Hammer 19. IFOAM and the
Instiutionalization of Organic Agriculture René Audet and Corinne Gendron
20. 'Fair Trade Gold': Prospects for Africa's Artisanal Miners Gavin Hilson
and Paul Kamlongera 21. The World Fair Trade Organization: From Trust to
Compliance Eileen Davenport and William Low 22. Fairtrade International
(FLO) Darryl Reed 23. Comercio Justo México: Potential Lessons for
Fairtrade? Alistair M. Smith and Francisco VanDerHoff Boersma 24. From
Non-State Regulation to Governance? Shifting the Site of Contestation
Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed