Grounding transnational business governance: A political-strategic perspective on government responses in the Global South

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Marques, Jose Carlos; Eberlein, Burkard
• 署名单位: University of Ottawa; York University - Canada
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12356
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1209-1229
• 关键词: value chains; SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY; regulatory governance; forest certification; economic-development; Private regulation; rising powers; state; STANDARDS; sustainability

摘要

Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public-private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that integrate and expand this literature. First, in juxtaposition to functionalist accounts, we foreground the fundamentally political and often contentious character of these interactions. As private transnational governance schemes and standards hit the ground, private-public interactions, we argue, are embedded in national political arenas and tied to domestic distributional struggles among competing regulatory coalitions. Building upon multiple empirical streams of research, we develop a political-strategic framework that maps the diversity of Southern government responses (substitute,adopt,repurpose,replace, orreject) to transnational private governance. Our framework shows that government responses are a function of bothstrategic fitwith domestic industrial capabilities and structures, and strength ofdevelopmental state capacity. Second, our proposed framework adopts the vantage point of Global South governments and industries, particularly how development challenges and strategic options within global value chains affect their understanding of, and responses to, transnational schemes and standards. This is an important corrective to a Northern bias in the private governance literature.