Limits to non-state market regulation: A qualitative comparative analysis of the international sport footwear industry and the Fair Labor Association

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Marx, Axel
• 署名单位: Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5991.2008.00037.x
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 253-273
• 关键词: private regulation; NETWORK FORMS; movements; ORGANIZATION; rise

摘要

Non-state market regulation has become a central focus and continues to receive scholarly attention. The present paper provides an assessment of the conditions under which multinational firms join a multi-stakeholder certification initiative. The cases of the Fair labor Association and 17 international sport footwear companies have been selected for this purpose. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the 17 cases is performed. The paper argues that the combination of sustained NGO pressure and public ownership of a firm is a necessary precondition for firms joining a multi-stakeholder certification initiative. The theoretical and policy implications of this result are discussed.