Community structure and the behavior of transnational sustainability governors

Toward a multi‐relational approach

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6377136
AutoresLuc Fransen (0000-0002-9846-8386), Jelmer Schalk (0000-0002-4180-6364), Graeme Auld (0000-0002-4054-7284)
Ano2020
Volume14
Fascículo1
Páginas3-25
Data de publicação2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRegulation & Governance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rego.12185
OpenAlexW2783585475
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas53

Hundreds of transnational private governance organizations (TPGOs) have emerged in recent decades to govern social and environmental conditions of production using voluntary standards. A debate persists over whether the ties among different TPGOs and other organizations create a professional community that affects the behavior of TPGOs. To help resolve this debate, we analyze multiple ties among agriculture TPGOs to offer a more robust exploration of community structures and their potential effects for three forms of TPGO behavior – coordination, collaboration, and isomorphism. Our aggregate measure of ties reveals a thin community dominated by older TPGOs and TPGOs advancing a broad notion of sustainability that were created by Solidaridad, the World Wildlife Fund, and/or Unilever. The clearest community structures are built from ties that exhibit the potential for not actual collaboration, coordination, and isomorphism. Thus, while there exists convergence toward an emergent TPGO‐community, obstacles remain to more intense behavioral effects for TPGOs

Business · Common ownership · Convergence (economics · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Isomorphism (crystallography · Political science · Public relations · Sustainability · Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Law · Ecology