Private governance of global value chains from within: lessons from and for transnational law

Eller, Klaas Hendrik

doi:10.1080/20414005.2017.1307310

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“…The researchers in the area of the global value chain have shown a recent inclination towards using phenomenology, for its strengths to explain the real-world complexities. For example, see the work of Eller (2017), andCano-Kollmann, Cantwell, Hannigan, Mudambi, andSong (2016). Phenomenology is a qualitative research approach in which the researcher as a human makes sense of the world around him (Cibangu & Hepworth, 2016;Saunders, Lewis, & Thornhill, 2009).…”

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The Role of Institutions in the Economic Sustainability of Global Value Chains: A Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis of Pakistani Apparel Industry

2019

JAEBS

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The geographical spread of the global value chains (GVC) not only makes them complex structures but also raises the challenges of governance for them. Gereffi and Lee (2014) argued that such governance issues may arise from either the vertical (within the structure of the GVC) or the horizontal (from outside) governance of a GVC; and at times, bring the sustainability of GVCs at stake. This study explores the phenomenon in the domain of the horizontal governance, outlining the role of the local institutions and the effects they cast upon the sustainability of the GVCs. This study incorporates the findings derived from transcendental phenomenological analysis (TPA) of the in-depth interviews of twenty-three export managers, working in the apparel firms producing for the GVCs on a long-term basis. The study delivers an explanation of the phenomenon and highlights the role played by the government institutions in it. The essence of this study elaborates the mechanisms of cooperation and coordination between the government institutions and the industry, and the difference in the expected and actual performance of the institutions. It highlights that the government institutions in Pakistan, having rigid culture, are currently not fulfilling the requirements of the apparel production units linked with GVCs; and the behavior of government employees adds to it. The implications emerging from this study, directions for future research and limitations have also been discussed. Besides, the application of NVIVO software to perform the qualitative data analysis (QDA) while performing the TPA adds to the methodological innovation of this study.

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The Role of Institutions in the Economic Sustainability of Global Value Chains: A Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis of Pakistani Apparel Industry

2019

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“…A very clear example of the inadequacies of individualistic and state-centric approaches is that of global value chains (GVCs), ranging from their early colonial version to present-day digitalized and spatially synchronized versions (Baars et al 2016;Eller 2017;Kjaer 2018;Salminen and Rajavuori 2019). GVCs serve as the central infrastructure of the global economy and consist of chains of contracts at times involving thousands of firms, millions of employees, and billions in investments.…”

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The Law of Political Economy as Transformative Law: A New Approach to the Concept and Function of Law

Kjaer

2021

Global Perspectives

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This article outlines a new approach to the law of political economy as a form of transformative law, a new approach that combines a focus on the function of law with a concept of law encapsulating the triangular dialectics between the form-giving prestation of law, the material substance the law is oriented against, and the transcendence of legal forms—that is, the rendering of compatibility between forms. Transformative law thereby serves as an alternative to both law and economics and recently emerging culturalist and neo-Marxist approaches. The timing of this publication is not coincidental. The era of neoliberalism—that is, of structural liberalism, which started in the 1970s and experienced its breakthrough in the 1980s and 1990s after the collapse of structural Marxism—is ending. This makes the question of what will succeed the neoliberal episteme pertinent.

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“…Arguably, this conflict-laden understanding may better grasp the normative backdrop of CSR practices as discussed in this special issue (see Eckert and Knöpfel this issue). Legislators that increasingly require companies not only to develop, implement, and communicate CSR practices, but also specify the content, form, and scope of such practices; courts that slowly take up CSR policies as potential arguments in litigation for creating obligations for corporations and creating liability (and the limits thereof); or certification schemes that are an integral part of corporate CSR practices, but at the same time, become sites of institutional contestation that pave the way for new types of responsibility attributions (Eller 2017).…”

Section: Csr Practice As Politicization Of Corporations Contestedmentioning

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CSR Practices and the Political Corporation in Law

Beckers

2020

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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In her article ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: The Great Shell Game’, Ellen Hertz suggests that there is an inherent danger of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to obscure the public/private divide. By means of strategically engaging with public interests, corporate CSR practices – that according to Hertz are practices deriving from the market – are able ‘to preempt and discredit attempts to define and carry out policies designed to protect the broader public interest’. CSR should be seen as ‘remediation at best’ that ideally needs to be replaced by ‘rules for business’ created by ‘the public’ and not those created by companies themselves.

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Private governance of global value chains from within: lessons from and for transnational law

Cited by 34 publications

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The Role of Institutions in the Economic Sustainability of Global Value Chains: A Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis of Pakistani Apparel Industry

The Role of Institutions in the Economic Sustainability of Global Value Chains: A Transcendental Phenomenological Analysis of Pakistani Apparel Industry

The Law of Political Economy as Transformative Law: A New Approach to the Concept and Function of Law

CSR Practices and the Political Corporation in Law

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