While the quantity of sustainability governance initiatives and systems has increased
dramatically, crises persist over whether specific governance systems can be trusted as …

Highlights•There is animpacts turn'in forest certification research.•To date, very little is known
about the impacts of forest certification more broadly, especially indirect and unanticipated …

We reflect on our 2008 article,“'Implicit'and 'Explicit'CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a
Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility,” first recalling its origins. We …

Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in
global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness …

Private organizations play a growing role in governing global issues alongside traditional
public actors such as states, international organizations, and subnational governments …

In this introductory paper for the special issue “Government and the Governance of Business
Conduct: Implications for Management and Organization”, we focus on government as an …

Community forestry has been described as a decentralised mode of forest governance that
only partly lives up to its expectations. The power of important actors to misuse the …

The new edition of this exciting textbook introduces students to the ways in which the
theories and tools of international relations and other social science disciplines can be used …

After two decades in which transnational governance of production processes has typically
meant voluntary subscription to privately developed standards, some transnational …

Private institutions for third-party (eco-) labelling of food and wood products has been a
lively field of empirical research, peaking in the conception of certification as a “non-state …