Private Global Business Regulation

By D. Vogel. 2008

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Regulations that govern the social and environmental impacts of global firms and markets without state enforcement are a relatively new dimension of global business regulation. The growth of such voluntary “civil regulations” reflects both the expansion of legitimate authority in the global economy outside the state and the increasing use of alternative regulatory instruments to govern firms, including self-regulation, market-based instruments, and soft laws. In response to global social activism, many firms have adopted voluntary regulatory standards to avoid additional regulation and/or to protect their reputations and brands. Activists have targeted highly visible firms and have been willing to work cooperatively with them. The most important civil regulations are multi-stockholder codes, whose governance is shared by firms and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and which rely on product and producer certifications. Such codes face the challenge of acquiring legitimacy and of persuading both firms a...

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The New Political Role of Business in a Globalized World – A Review of a New Perspective on CSR and its Implications for the Firm, Governance, and Democracy (2011, positive): “These activities of businesses demonstrate a growing involvement of corporations in global business regulation and in the production of global public goods (Braithwaite and Drahos 2000; Kaul et al. 2003; Vogel 2007).”
Making global markets: Historical institutionalism in international political economy (2010, neutral): “…2001; Simmons, 2001; Young, 2003), transgovernmental cooperation among regulators (Slaughter, 2004; Singer, 2004; Damro, 2006; Newman, 2008b), and indirect regulation through private actors (Cutler et al., 1999; Mattli and Büthe, 2003, 2005; Farrell, 2006; Perry and Nolke, 2006; Vogel, 2008).”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “Private, transnational governance, also labeled “soft” or “civil regulation” (Vogel, 2008), can be”
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme: An Innovation in Global Governance and Conflict Prevention (2009, background): “global voluntary regulatory system that is a variation of the "civil regulation" that has emerged across many sectors and issues in recent years (Ruggie, 2004; Vogel, 2008).”
Legitimacy‐as‐Feeling: How Affect Leads to Vertical Legitimacy Spillovers in Transnational Governance (2014, neutral): “Vogel (2008) counted over 300 transnational private business schemes governing major global economic sectors and policy issues, in addition to a plethora of hybrid schemes involving both private and public organizations (Hale and Held, 2011; Mena and Palazzo, 2012; Waddock, 2008).”
Input and output legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives (2012, background): “One challenge is to overcome the nonbinding character of standards (Vogel, 2007), which creates free-rider issues, as less-visible and less-criticized corporations can take advantage of not participating in MSI regulations (Graz & Nölke, 2008).”
Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime (2017, background): “The prominent explanation for the rise of supply chain auditing is that globalization has created a situation in which developing countries lack the capacity (or willingness) to enforce labor and environmental standards in their factories, and so, ‘lead companies’ have stepped in to rectify this ‘re”
Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards (2011, neutral): “The factors that can explain such variations of different market-based governance systems, however, have not yet received much attention in the literature (Vogel, 2008).”
Means versus Ends in Opaque Institutional Fields: Trading off Compliance and Achievement in Sustainability Standard Adoption (2014, background): “…of (global) supply chains (Levy, 2008; O’Rourke, 2007); the role of reinforcing institutions such as legislation (Gulbrandsen, 2010; Lee, 2009; Vogel, 2008; Amengual, 2010; Kim, 2013); the influence of competing or complementary standards (Reinecke et al., 2012); the role of the media and…”
Complements or Substitutes? Private Codes, State Regulation and the Enforcement of Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (2013, background): “…self-regulation is not an attempt to undermine the state, but rather an appropriately flexible response to the reality of global production networks and the low capacity of developing country states to fully enforce labour laws and regulations (Nadvi and Waltring 2004; Ruggie 2003; Vogel 2008).”
Regulation and economic globalization: Prospects and limits of private governance (2010, background): “Notable exceptions are Vogel (2008) and Mattli and Woods (2009a, 2009b), whose conceptualization of private governance as arising from the interplay of demand and supply factors provides a very useful starting point for further theorizing.”
Global Governance: CSR and the Role of the UN Global Compact (2014, background): “A new institutional infrastructure has emerged around the topic of CSR, ranging from global governance initiatives over self-regulatory industry standards to monitoring and consultancy firms that specialise in social and ecological sustainability issues (Vogel 2008; Waddock 2008).”