Codes in context: How states, markets, and civil society shape adherence to global labor standards

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Toffel, Michael W.; Short, Jodi L.; Ouellet, Melissa
• 署名单位: Harvard University
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12076
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 205-223
• 关键词: SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS; HUMAN-RIGHTS; governance; diffusion; ENFORCEMENT; disclosure; Factories; BUSINESS; Activism; SHADOW

摘要

Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private voluntary programs - such as certification regimes and codes of conduct - that diffuse global standards. However, little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society, and market institutions promote supply chain factories' adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the International Labour Organization treaty regime and that have stringent domestic labor law and high levels of press freedom. We further demonstrate that suppliers perform better when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious. These findings suggest the importance of overlapping state, civil society, and market governance regimes to meaningful transnational regulation.