Business regulation and non-state actors
Subtitle: whose standards? : whose development?
By: edited by Peter Utting, Darryl Reed, and Amanya Mukherjee-Reed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780415593113; 9780203126929
Subjects: International business enterprises; Industrial policy; International Organization for Standardization; Trade regulation; Non-governmental organizations; Sustainable development; Social aspects; Social responsibility of business
Table of contents: title: Introduction: multistakeholder regulation in a development perspective / Peter Utting; title: Development and the problematic of non-state regulation / Darryl Reed; title: Activism, business regulation, and development / Peter Utting; title: Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice / Stephane Barrientos and Sally Smith; title: Social Accountability 8000 and Socioeconomic Development / Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert; title: The international organization for standardization / Stepan Wood; title: The United Nations global compact and development / Catia Gregoratti; title: The global reporting initiative : promise and limitations / David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown; title: Balanço social and sustainability reporting in Brazil / Eduardo R. Gomes and Ana Maria Kirschner; title: The forest stewardship council / Graeme Auld and Benjamin Cashore; title: The marine stewardship council / Graeme Auld; title: The global G.A.P. / Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs; title: Global retail accululation strategies and Wal-mart's CSR regime / Ngai-Ling Sum; title: Applying the Atlanta Agreement on Child Labour in South Asia / Peter Lund-Thomsen and Khalid Nadvi; title: The extractive industries transparency initiative / Carola Kantz; title: Blood diamonds, non-state actors, and development : the Kimberley process and beyond / Ian Smillie; title: Peoples' tribunals in Latin America / Marcelo Saguier; title: The worker rights consortium / Don Wells; title: International framework agreements and development / Nikolaus Hammer; title: IFOAM and the instiutionalization of organic agriculture / René Audet and Corinne Gendron; title: "Fair trade gold" : prospects for Africa's artisanal miners / Gavin Hilson and Paul Kamlongera; title: The world fair trade organization : from trust to compliance / Eileen Davenport and William Low; title: Fairtrade international (FLO) / Darryl Reed; title: Comercio justo México : potential lessons for fairtrade? / Alistair M. Smith and Francisco VanDerHoff Boersma; title: From non-state regulation to governance? : shifting the site of contestation / Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed.