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作者：Patay, Dori; Friel, Sharon; Schram, Ashley; Sell, Susan
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：Multisectoral governance has been recognized to be vital to regulate harmful commodity industries, yet countries struggle with reaching policy coherence due to government agencies' conflicting mandates and industry interference. Limited empirical evidence is available on how interests, ideas, and institutions intersect and influence multisectoral governance in low- and middle-income countries, particularly in Pacific small island developing states (PSIDS), often exploited by vested industry in...
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作者：Rajavuori, Mikko; Savaresi, Annalisa; van Asselt, Harro
作者单位：University of Turku; University of Eastern Finland; University of Stirling; Utrecht University; University of Turku
摘要：The debate on corporate climate accountability has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Several countries, particularly in the Global North, have adopted mandatory human rights and/or environmental due diligence legislation. At the same time, judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings are helping to shape the contours of corporate climate accountability. This article considers how litigation against corporations and due diligence legislation interact, and thereby help develop and streng...
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作者：Robb, Lachlan; Candy, Trent; Deane, Felicity
作者单位：Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
摘要：Regulatory failure caused by overlapping regulations is ubiquitous, with examples in all jurisdictions across a range of disciplines. Overlapping regulation can be problematic. It obscures policy objectives and hinders the development of effective and clear regulation. In addition, regulatory overlap can inflict real costs on businesses through repetitive inspections and data collection efforts. It is particularly burdensome when agencies issue conflicting rules with inconsistent standards. Re...
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作者：McGrath, Joe; Walker, Ciaran
作者单位：University College Dublin
摘要：This article addresses the issue of renewing a sense of vocation in finance. Drawing on experiences in the UK, Australia, and Ireland, three common law jurisdictions at various phases of developing an ethical esprit de corps to professionalize the banking industry, it argues that adopting some aspects of a profession, a trajectory towards professionalization of the banking industry, could serve, at least to some extent, to improve the industry-wide norms that influence firms' cultures and indi...
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作者：Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Lenschow, Andrea
作者单位：University Osnabruck
摘要：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...
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作者：Krause, Theresa; Chen, Mo; Wassermann, Lena; Fischer, Doris; Grossklags, Jens
作者单位：University of Wurzburg; Technical University of Munich
摘要：Corporate credit reporting (CCR), which aims at increasing trust in corporates, constitutes an intriguing, yet understudied set of regulatory institutions as it is both a regulatory object and subject at the same time. Differences in national CCR systems pose challenges for multinational companies and have increasingly become a subject of international conflicts on regulatory standards. In this context, the case of China deserves special attention since the country pursues both institutional d...
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作者：Mason, Michael; Partzsch, Lena; Kramarz, Teresa
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Free University of Berlin; University of Toronto
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作者：Moberg, Linda; Fredriksson, Mio; Leijon, Karin
作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University
摘要：This article analyzes whether, and if so, why, national inspectorates adopt different enforcement strategies when controlling the provision of welfare services, such as health care, eldercare, and the compulsory school. The findings show that the Swedish Schools Inspectorate uses a predominantly strict strategy, while the Health and Social Care Inspectorate relies on a more situational strategy. To explain this variation in enforcement strategy, the article tests four hypotheses derived from t...
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作者：Dehbi, Fatimazahra; Martin-Ortega, Olga
作者单位：University of Greenwich; University of Greenwich
摘要：Ten years since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we have witnessed an increasing trend in Europe toward the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Focusing on due diligence legislation from France, Germany, Norway, and the EU, this article examines the extent to which these laws are laying the foundations for the articulation of an integrated, comprehensive, and robust framework that effectively fosters corporate accountabilit...
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作者：Schoeneich, Svenja; Saulich, Christina; Mueller, Melanie
摘要：Industrialized economies in the EU depend heavily on imports of minerals. The extraction and parts of the transport and processing of these minerals take place in the Global South and often bear high human rights and environmental risks. A lack of traceability in mineral supply chains makes it particularly difficult to hold companies accountable for negative environmental and social impacts of their operations and those of their suppliers. This paper analyses three mineral supply chains (coppe...
