Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda for Business Ethics

Bakker, Frank C.; Rasche, Andreas; Ponte, Stefano

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3388472

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“…These changes in the business, governance, and organizational status of CSR are together reflected in the changing modes of CSR (Moon, Murphy, & Gond, 2017), or how CSR is enacted (Table 1). The most obvious shift here is from the predominance of philanthropy and local partnerships, evident especially in the United States (Maignan & Ralston, 2002), to national and international cross-sectoral partnerships (Seitanidi & Crane, 2014), standards (Gilbert, Rasche, & Waddock, 2011), and MSIs (de Bakker, Rasche, & Ponte, 2019).…”

Section: Csr Then and Nowmentioning

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Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Matten

Moon

2020

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We reflect on our 2008 article, "'Implicit' and 'Explicit' CSR: A Conceptual Framework for a Comparative Understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility," first recalling its origins. We contextualize this reflection piece with a stylized interpretation of CSR "then" (the turn of the twenty-first century) and "now" (2019). We then focus on two themes: CSR's meaning and its dynamics. Regarding the meaning of CSR, we indicate the advantages of our capacious CSR definition and elaborate on the underlying theorization of our CSR framework regarding corporations' need for legitimacy with their core stakeholders, societies they operate in, and regulators they are subject to. We propose that the configuration of these legitimacy relationships informs the nature and balance of implicit and explicit CSR. Turning to CSR dynamics, we build on research on the hybridization of implicit and explicit CSR and explore two underlying phenomena-explicitization and implicitization of CSR. We conceptualize explicitization as the process by which norms and rules associated with implicit CSR are adopted in explicit CSR policies, practices, and strategies. We conceptualize implicitization of CSR as the process by which norms and rules of business responsibility are informed by what were hitherto explicit CSR policies, practices, and strategies of corporations, and are built into general obligations of business.a These changes are discussed in the section titled "The Dynamics of CSR." 2020 9 Matten and Moon

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Section: Csr Then and Nowmentioning

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Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Matten

Moon

2020

AMR

166

139

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“…First, some products and services are increasingly procured from local producers and locations that can display sustainability certifications at a large scale and at lower cost (Lund‐Thomsen and Nadvi, 2010). Second, MSIs play important roles in sustainability governance and shaping the functioning of GVCs (de Bakker et al., 2019). Third, new technologies, such as value chain traceability, sustainability auditing, and new metrics and compliance assessment instruments, are increasingly employed by lead firms (Mejías et al., 2019).…”

Section: Gvcs Regulatory Intermediaries and Upscaling Of Sustainability Standardsmentioning

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Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India

Lund‐Thomsen¹,

Riisgaard²,

Singh³

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Development and Change

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In this article, we analyse the role of regulatory intermediaries of the Better Cotton Initiative, a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) in the global cotton value chain, with a regional focus on India and Pakistan. We conceptualize how the key roles of regulatory intermediaries -translating and verifying compliance with abstract rules in ways that make these rules practical and intelligible for target audiences (in this case, cotton farmers) -may be compromised by global value chain pressures and contradictory MSI requirements, thereby undermining the aim of mainstreaming sustainability standard systems. In other words, we theorize how MSIs can become subject to regulatory capture, serving the needs of global brands (for rapid upscaling, price minimization and verification) and sustainability standard bodies (contradictory demands for capacity building and compliance) at the expense of the intended beneficiaries -farmers at the base of global value chains. Based on an empirical analysis of the Better Cotton Initiative's implementing partners in Pakistan and India, we conclude that such weaknesses in standard implementation are likely to translate into poorer field-level results in terms of ensuring the large-scale, global mainstreaming of more sustainable commodity production sought by MSI practitioners.1. In general, this trend has been institutionalized through retailer and brand participation in multi-stakeholder initiatives which can be defined as 'voluntary rule-systems for sustainability that are governed by stakeholders who jointly cross the profit/non-profit and state/non-state boundaries' (de Bakker et al., 2019: 346). It is possible to distinguish

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“…Social responsibilities are highly contextualized. They are governed through a range of traditional institutions (such as states, markets, corporations, professions, families, religions, and communities, see Thornton, Ocasio & Lounsbury, 2012) (Amaeshi & Idemudia, 2015; Motsei & Nkomo, 2016) and ‘new’ institutions such as multi-stakeholder initiatives and public-private partnerships (de Bakker, Rasche & Ponte, 2019). They are shared by a variety of organizations/workplaces within society, through negotiation and power struggles.…”

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Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context

2021

Human Relations

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Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives on Sustainability: A Cross-Disciplinary Review and Research Agenda for Business Ethics

Cited by 13 publications

References 333 publications

Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Reflections on the 2018 Decade Award: The Meaning and Dynamics of Corporate Social Responsibility

Global Value Chains and Intermediaries in Multi‐stakeholder Initiatives in Pakistan and India

Contesting Social Responsibilities of Business: Experiences in Context

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