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Business regulation and non-state actors : whose standards? : whose development?
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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, a...
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. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainabil
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- Creator
- edited by Darryl Reed, Peter Utting and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- London : Routledge, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781136459351, 1136459359, 9781136459368, 1136459367, 9780203126929, 0203126920, 1138808164, 0415593115
- OCLC
- ocn798532975, ocn787851151
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Business Regulation and Non- State Actors Whose standards? Whose development?; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction: multistakeholder regulation from a development perspective; 1 Development and the problematic of non- state regulation; 2 Activism, business regulation and development; 3 Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice; 4 Social Accountability 8000 and socioeconomic development; 5 The International Organization for Standardization
- 6 The United Nations Global Compact and development7 The Global Reporting Initiative: promise and limitations; 8 Balanço Social and sustainability reporting in Brazil; 9 The Forest Stewardship Council; 10 The Marine Stewardship Council; 11 The GlobalG.A.P.; 12 Global retail accumulation strategies and Wal- Mart's CSR regime; 13 Applying the Atlanta Agreement on child labour in South Asia; 14 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI); 15 Blood diamonds, non- state actors and development: the Kimberley Process and beyond; 16 Peoples' tribunals in Latin America
- 17 The Worker Rights Consortium18 International Framework Agreements and development; 19 IFOAM and the institutionalization of organic agriculture; 20 'Fair trade gold': prospects for Africa's artisanal miners; 21 The World Fair Trade Organization: from trust to compliance; 22 Fairtrade International (FLO); 23 Comercio Justo México: potential lessons for Fairtrade?; 24 From non- state regulation to governance? Shifting the site of contestation; Index