Traceability in global governance

Bibliographic Data

ID4263274
AuthorsJacob Muirhead (Department of Political Science, KTH 527 McMaster University Hamilton Canada L8S 4M4, corresponding author), Tony Porter (0000-0001-9798-1885, Department of Political Science, KTH 527 McMaster University Hamilton Canada L8S 4M4, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume19
Issue3
Pages423-443
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12237
OpenAlexW2941342560
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited35

An increasingly important challenge in global governance, which in some issue areas has been labelled 'traceability', has been to track the cross-border travels of objects that are associated with positive or negative effects. However, the common properties and identifiable patterns of variation of traceability across issue areas or industries have been insufficiently explored. We identify key properties of traceability systems, including the variation and interactions between the physical properties of the traced object, the positive or negative effects with which it is associated, the monitoring technology, and the institutionalized power relations that activate and constrain traceability systems. We examine and compare traceability systems for food safety, conflict minerals, pharmaceuticals, carbon emissions, money laundering and financial transactions. Understanding traceability in this way is important not only for these cases, but also for understanding interactions between objects, infrastructures, as well as monitoring and political mechanisms in global governance more generally

Business · Computer security · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Industrial organization · Political science · Politics · Process management · Requirements traceability · Traceability · Computer Science · Food Supply Chain Traceability · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Finance

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