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Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards
(2014-10-28)
Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs—like certification regimes and codes of conduct—that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under ...
Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2016-03-30)
Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay marriage to climate change to ...
Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing
(INFORMS, 2016)
Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance. We identify key company- and ...
Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains
(2016-08-24)
Worker rights advocates seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains have engaged in private political strategies prompting transnational corporations (TNCs) to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their ...
The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring
(INFORMS, 2013)
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly ...
Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: Legalization, Participation, and Economic Incentives
(2017-09-08)
Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including legalization—adherence to a set of law-like rules and procedures—and worker participation to ...
Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions
(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2019-07)
Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about ...
CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-06-06)
Corporate sustainability has gone mainstream, and many companies have taken meaningful steps to improve their own environmental performance. But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact ...