Why Do Private Governance Organizations Not Converge? A Political-Institutional Analysis of Transnational Labor Standards Regulation

By L. Fransen. 2011

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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1. S. Manning
2. Juliane Reinecke
3. V. Bitzer
4. G. Schouten

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2. Juliane Reinecke
3. V. Bitzer
4. G. Schouten
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2. G. Schouten
3. S. Manning
4. Christina Niforou
5. Juliane Reinecke
6. Benn Lawson
7. Jimmy Donaghey
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Citations in the corpus

• From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “For instance, the UK’s Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), a voluntary program for improving labor standards in global production chains, describes itself as a coalition of UK-based companies, trade unions, and NGOs but is controlled primarily by business.”
• The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry (2012, background): “Transnational governance scholars have looked at the proliferation of voluntary standards in various fields, but are only beginning to understand the impact of multiple standards for governing transnational arenas (Kolk, 2005; Fransen, 2011; Rasche, 2010).”
• The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains: A new trend in sustainability governance? (2015, background): “The resulting multiplicity of standards has been observed in different global value chains (Reinecke et al., 2012; Fransen, 2011), which sheds light on the political struggles for credibility and influence underlying the creation of voluntary standards based on competing problem definitions and obje”