Organizing transnational accountability 1. Organizing for accountability Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten 2. The United Nations soft and hard : regulating social accountability for global business Christina Garsten 3. ISO expands its business into social responsibility Kristina Tamm Hallström 4. Organizing accountability in transnational standards organizations : the forest stewardship council as a good governance model Lars H. Gulbrandsen 5. From accounts to accountability : corporate self presentations in response to public criticism Boris Holzer 6. Watchdogs beyond control the accountability of accounting standards organizations Dieter Kerwer 7. Boundaries of responsible buying : accountability for what and to whom Karin Svedberg Nilsson 8. Rituals of legitimation : organizing accountability in EU employment policy Renita Thedvall 9. The political logics of accountability : from doing the right thing to doing the thing right Jessica Lindvert 10. Agenda setting for accountability : the Swedish code of corporate governance Susan Marton 11. Making it all publicly available : four challenges to environmental disclosure Sander W.K. van den Burg and Arthur P.J. Mol 12. Accountability public involvement and (ir)reversibility Linda Soneryd and Rolf Lidskog 13. The antinomy of accountability Luigi Pellizzoni 14. The treadmill of accountability Magnus Boström and Christina Garsten Afterwords : organizing transnational accountability John W. Meyer This book adds a multi disciplinary organizational perspective to the theoretical analysis of political accountability and argues for a broadening of the conventional understanding of the concepts of responsibility and accountability