Multi-stakeholder regulation: privatizing or socializing global labor standards?

By D. O’Rourke. 2006

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Subfields: Public Administration, Strategy and Management

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In Public Administration

1. Henrik Lindholm
2. Joonkoo Lee
3. V. Soundararajan
4. Niklas Egels-Zandén
5. Guido Palazzo
6. Sáchez Mena
7. Jill A. Brown
8. Juliane Reinecke

In Strategy and Management

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4. D. Dentoni
5. Henrik Lindholm
6. Gary Gereffi
7. E. Bennett
8. Martin Müller

Citations in the corpus

• Do codes of conduct improve worker rights in supply chains? A study of Fair Wear Foundation (2015, background): “There is a plethora of social auditing initiatives in the apparel industry, ranging from corporate-driven industry initiatives to multi-stakeholder initiatives (Anner, 2012; O’Rourke, 2006).”
• Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, background): “Many MSPs work through sustainability standards as a form of voluntary private regulation, where standard compliance is verified through regular third-party monitoring to achieve objective, independent measurements (O’Rourke 2006; Hatanaka and Busch 2008).”
• Voluntary Governance Mechanisms in Global Supply Chains: Beyond CSR to a Stakeholder Utility Perspective (2016, background): “…and not in alignment with their industrial growth (Djankov and Ramalho, 2009), private, voluntary governance mechanisms have surfaced as the primary means by which multinational corporations address social responsibility in supplier facilities (Mena & Palazzo, 2012; O’Rourke, 2006; Rasche, 2010).”
• Social Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile and Apparel Industry—A Literature Review (2017, background): “Generally, MSIs impose their own codes of conduct, which are mainly based on the ILO standards (International Labour Organization) [71].”
• The emergence of Southern standards in agricultural value chains: A new trend in sustainability governance? (2015, neutral): “, 2012), and clothing (O'Rourke, 2006).”
• Global value chains, rising power firms and economic and social upgrading (2015, background): “Active roles can be played by workers and labor unions in GVCs, who often are the best monitors on the ground (O’Rourke, 2006) and who have considerable power to disrupt the supply chains in their bargaining with employers (Selwyn, 2013).”