Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments

Kolcava, Dennis; Smith, E. Keith; Bernauer, Thomas

doi:10.1038/s41893-022-00984-8

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“…The newer requirements provide more detail of what actions should be undertaken (e.g. identify risks, dependencies and impacts) and are in line with due diligence approaches that incorporate own activities and those along value chains [ 26 , 27 ]. Such requirements reflect the kinds of decisions companies are making with respect to biodiversity, for example, recognizing that companies depend upon nature because it is the source of raw materials and also buffers company direct and indirect impacts.…”

Section: Company Decision-making Through Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping nature outcomes in corporate settings

Bebbington,

Blasiak,

Larrinaga

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Transnational companies have substantive impacts on nature: a hallmark of living in the Anthropocene. Understanding these impacts through company provision of information is a precursor to holding them accountable for nature outcomes. The effect of increasing disclosures (of varying quality) is predicated on ‘information governance’, an approach that uses disclosure requirements to drive company behaviour. However, its efficacy is not guaranteed. We argue that three conditions are required before disclosures have the possibility to shape nature outcomes, namely: (1) radical traceability that links company actions to outcomes in particular settings; (2) developing organizational routines, tools and approaches that translate strategic intent to on-the-ground behaviour; and (3) mobilizing and aligning financial actors with corporate nature ambitions. While disclosure is key to each of these conditions, its limits must be taken into account and it must be nested in governance approaches that shape action, not just reporting. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Bringing nature into decision-making’.

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Section: Company Decision-making Through Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shaping nature outcomes in corporate settings

Bebbington,

Blasiak,

Larrinaga

et al. 2024

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Given that the choice experiment exposed respondents to a very wide range of randomly generated treatments, it is highly unlikely that the results in the subsequent vignette experiment, on which most of the present paper is based, could be affected by systematic carryover effects (Clifford, Sheagley, and Piston, 2021). In another paper, we analyze the choice experimental data to gauge public support levels for stricter supply chain governance, using standard statistical tools for choice experiment analysis (Kolcava, Smith, and Bernauer, 2022). In the present paper, however, we rather adopt the choice-experimental data as a supplement to the data collected in the vignette experiment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We focus on the case of disclosure-based policy measures aimed at improving environmental and working conditions throughout global production networks (Sellare, Börner, Brugger et al, 2022). Recent research has quantified citizen preferences within the Global North, broadly noting high levels of concern for global sustainability inequality, as well as support for corporate and governmental interventions in this area (Kolcava, Smith, and Bernauer, 2022;Amengual and Bartley, 2022). Indeed, policy-makers across several highincome economies (several in Europe, United States, Australia, Japan) are debating and recently have adopted policy frameworks towards improving the sustainability of global supply chains .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Preference Formation Towards Sustainable Global Supply Chains Policy

Kolcava¹,

Smith²,

Bernauer³

2022

Preprint

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Effectively governing environmental and social externalities throughout the global economy poses challenges for democratic policy-makers in the court of public opinion. Following the median voter model, as the stringency of policy proposals increases, support rises amongst some citizens and falls amongst others. We argue informational disclosure-based governance presents a potential strategy to mitigate this zero-sum logic as citizens discount policy costs while expecting substantive benefits. We focus on political efforts to increase sustainability throughout global supply chains, drawing on two original survey experiments with representative samples in the 12 largest high-income importing economies (N=24,000). Indeed, at higher levels of policy stringency, citizens expect greater benefits than costs. Further, we find that expected benefits are more strongly associated with support than costs. Lastly, we note how policy stringency promotes convergence of expected benefits across the political ideological spectrum. Hence, our findings provide insights into public preference formation towards the globalization-sustainability nexus.

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“…Public opinion has been consistently demonstrated to have a strong influence on governmental actors’ priorities and ensuing policy output across wide-ranging democratic contexts 19 , 20 . Recent findings indicate high support for stringent supply chain policies in high-income OECD countries 21 , largely driven by demands to make overseas production practices match ethical expectations 22 , 23 and the desire to adjust domestic policy to international norm-setting 24 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Third, individual-level environmental concern and perceived impacts of environmental problems will be positively associated with support for more stringent policies 27 . Lastly, supply chain policy preferences will be robust against information provided about potential costs and benefits associated with these measures 21 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stringent sustainability regulations for global supply chains are supported across middle-income democracies

Smith,

Kolcava,

Bernauer

2024

Nat Commun

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Expanded international trade and globalised production networks are increasing the environmental and social impacts in middle-income countries (GNI per capita $1,136-$13,845). High-income countries (>$13,845) are seeking to mitigate the negative impacts of domestic consumption by imposing new sustainability regulations on global supply chains. Recent evidence suggests that these regulations are broadly supported across high-income countries. However, it remains unclear whether citizens of middle-income countries support aligning domestic sustainability regulations with the measures developed by high-income countries. Concerns about economic competitiveness and foreign imposition could increase public resistance toward such alignment. Alternatively, desires for continued market access in high-income countries and aspirations for strengthening local environmental and labour regulations could foster support for alignment. Based on survey-embedded experiments in the three largest democratic non-OECD economies (Brazil, India, Indonesia), we find surprisingly strong support for domestic-based measures that are aligned with emerging global supply chain sustainability regulations. Our findings suggest that support is largely driven by positive impact expectations, where the future benefits of alignment are perceived as outweighing concerns about increased costs. These results bode well for initiatives to install stricter sustainability regulations for global supply chains that are acceptable not only in high-income economies but also in non-OECD countries.

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Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Shaping nature outcomes in corporate settings

Shaping nature outcomes in corporate settings

Public Preference Formation Towards Sustainable Global Supply Chains Policy

Stringent sustainability regulations for global supply chains are supported across middle-income democracies

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