Hardening foreign corporate accountability through mandatory due diligence in the European Union? New trends and persisting challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7997697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Almut Schilling-Vacaflor (0000-0002-0549-8034, corresponding author), Andrea Lenschow (0000-0003-2162-1968) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 677-693 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regulation & Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-5983 • E-ISSN: 1748-5991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rego.12402 |
| OpenAlex | W3160556030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 44 |
The negative externalities of global commodity chains and existing governance gaps have received wide scholarly attention. Indeed, many sectors including forest‐risk commodities (FRCs) like soy and beef from Brazil remain largely unregulated. This article analyzes ongoing policy‐making processes at European Union level to adopt new regulations for reducing accountability gaps: one regulation of FRCs and one general, cross‐sectoral directive on human rights and environmental due diligence. This article draws on and aims to contribute to previous research into foreign corporate accountability, therein analytically distinguishing between input , output , and surrogate accountability . This study shows that new policies will likely be more comprehensive than previous supply chain regulations, while their specific institutional design and stringency are highly contested. More in general, we argue that for hardening corporate accountability, due diligence politics will need to confront important governance challenges that have limited the potential of previous regulations, such as a lack of consequentiality of reporting obligations, weak state monitoring, limited stakeholder involvement, and difficulties to establish legal liability
Accountability · Business · Corporate governance · Corporate social responsibility · Due diligence · Economics · European union · International trade · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Stakeholder · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Accounting · Finance
Toward spatial fit in the governance of global commodity flows
Das Recht und intersektionale Konflikte in globalen Produktionsnetzwerken
Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe's human rights and environmental due diligence laws
The politics of accountability in global sustainable commodity governance
The Norwegian Transparency Act
Labour rights & their enforcement in global value chains
Fragmented sustainability governance of telecoupled flows
Corporate Sustainability Reporting
Business and Human Rights Regulation After the UN Guiding Principles
Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Regulations for Deforestation‐Free Value Chains? Exploring the Implementation of the EU Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products in the Cocoa and Coffee Sectors of Peru
Integrating sufficiency in the trade and biodiversity agenda of the European Union
Analysing the impact of the failure to prevent bribery offence on corporate compliance reporting in the United Kingdom – towards a better model of corporate accountability
Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards
Environmental governance in globally telecoupled systems
The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains
Corporate responsibility and the state
Unraveling Complex Impacts Pathways of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in Global Textile Value Chains
Contestation and Compromise in Shaping the European Union's Corporate Sustainability due Diligence Directive
The Green Economy and the Global South
Chain Reactions
Due Diligence Legislation and the Politics of Implementation
Promise and pitfalls of mandatory due diligence for enhancing worker power in global value chains
Transformation or more of the same? The EU’s deforestation-free products regulation through a radical transformation lens
Co-creation research for transformative times
Greenlash’ and reactionary stakeholders in environmental governance
Telecoupling of governance systems under the EU deforestation regulation
Perceptions, sustainability and forest cover associated to public programs for coffee production in the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico
Business and human rights as Swedish foreign policy
Environmental Supply Chain Regulations in a Changing Market Environment
Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation
The Construction of Compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation in Global Coffee Value Chains
Sustainability governance diversifies
Not an easy ride
Follow the money
The French duty of vigilance law
Foreign corporate accountability
From voluntary to mandatory corporate accountability
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations
Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation
Donor Dependency, Embeddedness and Organizational Structure of Civil Society
Towards more sustainable global supply chains? Company compliance with new human rights and environmental due diligence laws
Proxy-led accountability for natural resource extraction in rentier states
Moment of truth for the Cerrado hotspot
The rotten apples of Brazil's agribusiness
Deforestation displaced
Missing the Bigger Picture
Mandatory due diligence for ‘conflict minerals’ and illegally logged timber
National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights
The French Law on Duty of Care
Putting the French Duty of Vigilance Law in Context
International law's invisible hand and the future of corporate accountability for violations of human rights
Global Environmental Governance for Corporate Responsibility and Accountability
Governing Global Supply Chain Sustainability through the Ethical Audit Regime
Overcoming the global despondency trap
Do eco-labels prevent deforestation? Lessons from non-state market driven governance in the soy, palm oil, and cocoa sectors
Human Rights and the Environment
A Level Playing Field”? – What an Environmental Justice Lens Can Tell us about Who Gets Leveled in the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan
Actors in private food governance
Contextualizing certification and auditing
Maldevelopment revisited
Global environmental governance and the accountability trap
Toward “hardened” accountability? Analyzing the European Union's hybrid transnational governance in timber and biofuel supply chains
The challenges of upward regulatory harmonization
Dynamic governance interactions
Two Concepts of Accountability
Accountability in an Unequal World
Multinationals as global institution
Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector
Transnational governance and the re‐centered state
European Union's proxy accountability for tropical deforestation
Globalization's limits to the environmental state? Integrating telecoupling into global environmental governance
The domestic politics of corporate accountability legislation
Land Regularization in Brazil and the Global Land Grab
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
Alternatives to Multilateralism
Green for gold
| Unique citing works | 42 |
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| Citations per year | 8,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |