Sub-theme 10: (SWG) Creating and Sustaining Transnational Multi-Actor Governance of Corporate Conduct
Convenors:
Jeremy Moon, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Arno Kourula, University of Amsterdam Business School, The Netherlands
Juliane Reinecke, University of Warwick Business School, UK
Session I: Thursday, July 02, 11:00 to 12:30, DEREE-703
Introduction, Adoption and Institutionalization of Transnational Governance
Chair: Juliane Reinecke
Steve Loren, Suhaib Riaz and Stephan Manning
Adopting international accountability standards across national business systems: A neo-institutional perspective
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jeremy Moon
Frank Wijen, Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari and Evelyn Micelotta
Flirting without embracing: The truncated development of an intangible commons logic
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): José Carlos Marques
First, Jeremy Moon, Arno Kourula and Juliane Reinecke will introduce the Standing Working Group and the sub-theme.
Session II: Thursday, July 02, 14:00 to 15:30, DEREE-703
Institutional Dynamism, Experimentation and Work in Standardization
Chair: Salla Laasonen
Rieneke Slager
Maintaining partial organization: Standardisation of Corporate Social Responsibility
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Juliane Reinecke
Juliane Reinecke and Jimmy Donaghey
Managing complexity through experimental institution building: The transnational multi-actor governance response to the Rana
Plaza disaster
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rashedur Chowdhury
Jeremy Moon
Corporate Social Responsibility and gender inequality: Institutional work of resistance and repair
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Martin Fougère
Session III: Thursday, July 02, 16:00 to 17:30, DEREE-703
Interactive Poster Session
Chair: Arno Kourula
Hyemi Shin
Die hard, but camouflage: The changing role of nation state in the multi-level transnational governance evolution
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Marcus Vinícius Peinado Gomes, 2. Greetje Schouten
Vivek Soundararajan, Jill Brown and Andrew C. Wicks
Value creation for stakeholders and the success of multi-stakeholder initiatives in global supply chains
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Shahzad Ansari, 2. Suhaib Riaz
Sabina Du Rietz
Governing corporate social responsibility: Swedish trade unions in encounter with CSR ideas
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Arno Kourula, 2. Luc Brès
Frank de Bakker, Andreas Rasche and Stefano Ponte
Multi-stakeholder initiatives and roundtables in transnational governance: A cross-disciplinary review
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Frank Wijen, 2. Andreas Georg Scherer
Stephanos Anastasiadis
The legitimacy of the International Olympic Committee as a private government
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Juliane Reinecke, 2. Arno Kourula
Rashedur Chowdhury
The Rana Plaza disaster and the collapse of elite institutions
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): 1. Jeremy Moon, 2. Juliane Reinecke
This session includes eight poster presentations with assigned discussants.
Session IV: Friday, July 03, 09:00 to 10:30, DEREE-703
Paradox, Transparency and Pressure in Standardization
Chair: Afshin Mehrpouya
Wesley S. Helms, Amy E. Ingram and Luc Brès
Origins and outcomes to paradoxes: organizational motivations, paradoxical issues, and the political construction of ISO 26000
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Stefan Schembera
Laurence Vigneau
Corporate Social Responsibility Standards, Reporting and Transparency
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Arno Kourula
Staffan Furusten and Maria Grafström
Making meaning of standards – Translation in path generating junctures
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Laurence Vigneau
Session V: Friday, July 03, 14:00 to 15:30, DEREE-703
Decoupling, Legitimacy and Activism Across Governance Contexts
Chair: Stephanos Anastasiadis
Stefan Schembera, Patrick Haack and Andreas Georg Scherer
Making sense of decoupling through narration: The case of fighting corruption in global business
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rieneke Slager
Samer Abdelnour and Salla Laasonen
From deaths to DALYs: theorizing legitimizing metrics in transnational advocacy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Wesley S. Helms
Sabrina Gabl
Negotiating governance legitimacy: How actors produce a multiplicity of justifications to subvert or sustain legitimacy
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Vivek Soundararajan
Session VI: Saturday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, DEREE-703
Scripts, Strategies and Fit in Cross-sector Governance
Chair: Arno Kourula
Afshin Mehrpouya, Hugh Willmott and Peter Edward
David and Goliath? Scripting survival in transnational regulatory markets
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sabrina Gabl
José Carlos Marques
Drivers of transnational private regulatory coalitions: The diversity of firm reactions to similar socio-political pressures
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Laura J. Spence
Greetje Schouten, Sietze Vellema and Jeroen van WIjk
The diffusion of global multi-stakeholder sustainability standards: An assessment of the institutional fit of the ASC-shrimp
standard in Indonesia
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maja Tampe
Session VII: Saturday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30, DEREE-703
Multiple Actors, Issues and Struggles Across Empirical Contexts
Chair: Jeremy Moon
Marcus Vinícius Peinado Gomes
Greenpeace and the transnational governance of the Brazilian beef industry: How a transnational social movement organisation
regulates the 'slaughtering of the Amazon'
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Frank G.A. de Bakker
Maja Tampe
Resilience in the tropics: How to make social and environmental standards work in volatile commodity markets
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lauren McCarthy
Martin Fougère
Transnational multi-actor governance on sustainable palm oil through the lens of agonistic pluralism
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Afshin Mehrpouya