Transnational Business Governance Interactions

Advancing Marginalized Actors and Enhancing Regulatory Quality

9781788114721 Edward Elgar Publishing

Edited by Stepan Wood, Canada Research Chair in Law, Society and Sustainability, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Canada, Rebecca Schmidt, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway, Errol Meidinger, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Margaret W. Wong Professor of Law, Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York, US, Burkard Eberlein, Professor of Public Policy and Strategic Management, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and Kenneth W. Abbott, Jack E. Brown Professor of Law emeritus, Arizona State University, US

Publication Date: 2019 ISBN: 978 1 78811 472 1 Extent: 416 pp

From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood effects. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors.

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From agriculture to sport and from climate change to indigenous rights, transnational regulatory regimes and actors are multiplying and interacting with poorly understood results. This interdisciplinary book investigates whether, how and by whom transnational business governance interactions (TBGIs) can be harnessed to improve the quality of transnational regulation and advance the interests of marginalized actors.

Exploring multiple sectors and issue areas, Transnational Business Governance Interactions presents new empirical and theoretical research from leading and emerging scholars and identifies obstacles to, and opportunities for, mobilizing TBGIs to enhance regulatory capacities, outputs and outcomes and to advance marginalized actors in transnational business governance.

The prime readership for this work is an interdisciplinary audience of academics including scholars of law, business, environmental studies, international relations, political science, political economy and sociology. Because of its attention to practical strategies to harness governance interactions to enhance regulatory quality and advance marginalized groups, the book will also be of interest to high-level participants in global business governance, including standards-setting bodies, certification bodies, auditors, trade associations, civil society organizations, social movement organizers, national regulators, overseas development agencies and international organizations.

Critical Acclaim

‘Transnational Business Governance Interactions provides a detailed exploration of whether and how interactions between the transnational regulatory governance regimes of businesses in a range of sectors can be harnessed by those participating in them to improve regulatory quality and advance the interests of marginalised actors. It provides a rich set of case studies which examine when and how such interactions can be productive or constraining, and deepens our theoretical understandings of this important area of polycentric regulatory governance.’
– Julia Black, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Contributors

Contributors: K.W. Abbott, G. Auld, M. Bach, S. Carodenuto, D. Casey, B. Cashore, C.C.-H. Chen, B. Eberlein, P. Foley, S. Gao, T. Havinga, L.F. Henriksen, E. Meidinger, N. Oman, P. Paiement, S. Renckens, R. Schmidt, L. Seabrooke, P. Verbruggen, O. Westerwinter, J.K. Winn, S. Wood

Contents

Contents:

1 Transnational business governance interactions, regulatory
quality and marginalized actors: An introduction 1
Stepan Wood, Burkard Eberlein, Errol Meidinger, Rebecca
Schmidt and Kenneth W. Abbott

PART I IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TRANSNATIONAL
REGULATION
2 Transnational business governance interactions in food safety
regulation: Exploring the promises and risks of enrolment 28
Paul Verbruggen and Tetty Havinga
3 Governance interactions in sustainable supply chain management 52
Errol Meidinger
4 Local practices, transnational solutions? The role of host
cities in the cyclical process of environmental regulation of
sports mega-events 77
Rebecca Schmidt
5 Transnational governance of innovation in payment services:
A case study of the Single Euro Payments Area 99
Jane K. Winn
6 Micro-level interactions in the compliance processes of
transnational private governance: The market for
Marine Stewardship Council auditors and assessors 123
Graeme Auld and Stefan Renckens
7 The evolution of transnational governance overlaps:
A network approach 141
Oliver Westerwinter
8 Issue control in transnational business governance interactions 166
Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke

PART II ADVANCING THE INTERESTS OF
MARGINALIZED ACTORS
9 Interactions, iteration and early institutionalization:
Competing lessons of GLOBALGAP’s legitimation 183
Donal Casey
10 Can non-state regulatory authority improve domestic
forest sustainability? Assessing interactive pathways of
influence in Cameroon 207
Sophia Carodenuto and Benjamin Cashore
11 Transnational delegation, accountability and the
administrative governance of biofuel standards 227
Phillip Paiement
12 Capturing climate: Tracking nascent transnational
business governance interactions around the Oil
and Gas Climate Initiative 253
Matthew Bach
13 Transnational business governance interactions and financial
regulation change: A case of Asian financial markets 275
Simin Gao and Christopher (Chao-Hung) Chen
14 A Coxian perspective on transnational business governance
interactions: Counter-hegemonic certification movements
in fisheries 294
Paul Foley
15 Private ordering and transnational social justice:
The Forest Stewardship Council’s advocacy of free, prior
and informed consent 315
Natalie Oman
16 Interactive strategies for advancing marginalized actors
in transnational governance contests: Labour and the
making of ISO 26000 338
Stepan Wood

PART III CONCLUSIONS
17 Harnessing TBGIs to advance regulatory quality and
marginalized actors 363
Stepan Wood, Errol Meidinger, Burkard Eberlein,
Rebecca Schmidt and Kenneth W. Abbott

Index 387