Business Regulation and Non-State Actors

Whose Standards? Whose Development?

Ananya Reed, Darryl Reed, Peter Utting, Ananya Mukherjee Reed

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781136459351
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

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 sustainability? This volume examines more than 20 initiatives or institutions associated with different regulatory and development approaches, including the business-friendly corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda, 'corporate accountability' and 'fair trade' or social economy.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Business Regulation and Non-State Actors
• Routledge studies in development economics
• Definition
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Boxes
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgement
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Introduction
• 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 development
• 7 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 Global G.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 Consortium
• 18 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
• 24 From non-state regulation to governance? Shifting the site of contestation
• Index