Assessing the institutionalization of private sustainability governance in a changing coffee sector

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Grabs, Janina
• 署名单位: University of Munster
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12212
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 362-387
• 关键词: environmental governance; Fair trade; GLOBAL GOVERNANCE; STANDARDS; certification; MARKET; ORGANIZATIONS; BUSINESS; chain; legitimacy

摘要

The potential of transnational private governance initiatives to constitute effective alternatives to state-led regulation of global value chains rests on their ability to scale up and become institutionalized in a given sector. This study examines whether such institutionalization has occurred in the coffee sector, the commodity with the most widespread adoption of certified products and over 30 years' experience of private governance, and tests hypotheses on facilitating and inhibiting conditions. It finds that while norm generation around responsible supply chain management and the organizational institutionalization of standard-setting bodies is well advanced, the practice of internalizing social and environmental externalities through the routinized production and purchase of higher priced certified goods continues to be questioned by industry actors. Indeed, conditions that favored normative and organizational institutionalization, such as high levels of industry concentration, product differentiation, and deliberative interaction, are shown to represent barriers to the practice-oriented institutionalization of market-driven regulatory governance.