Direct Targeting as an NGO Political Strategy: Examining Private Authority Regimes in the Forestry Sector

By E. Sasser, Aseem Prakash, B. Cashore, G. Auld. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Strategy and Management

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Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework (2007, background): “In addition 2 , large-N (Prakash & Potoski 2006) and historical case studies (Boström 2003; Gulbrandsen 2005; Sasser et al. 2006) have addressed why specific types of private authority emerged, and why firm-level support for such mechanisms often varies within and across sectors.”
Competing Environmental Labels (2014, background): “As recounted by Sasser et al. (2006), the FSC was initiated in 1993 by a coalition of NGOs, including Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund, which were disappointed when nations failed to sign a global forest convention at the Rio Earth Summit.”
The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry (2012, background): “In the case of coffee, but also in textiles (Fransen, 2011) and forestry (Sasser et al., 2006), firms invest resources in the development of alternative standards, even when internationally recognized standards are available.”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “26 independent NGOs, or to connect their brand names to labels over which they have no control, preferring to create their own standards (Sasser et al., 2006).”
Private Global Business Regulation (2008, background): “…series of creative and often well-funded public campaigns that have sought to “name and shame” highly visible firms in North America and Europe through media exposés, demonstrations, and threatened or actual boycotts (e.g., Bartley 2003, 2005; Bendell 2004; Sasser et al. 2006; O’Rourke 2005).”