Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business

Werner, Timothy

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“…The US has a stronger tradition of pursuing solutions to regulatory problems through its legal system than the UK (Aguilera et al . ; Kaplan ; Werner ). In Kagan's work on adversarial legalism, the US methods of policy implementation and dispute resolution are described as more adversarial and legalistic when compared with the systems of other economically advanced countries (Kagan , ).…”

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Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Knudsen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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While most scholarship on corporate social responsibility (CSR) focuses on company‐level CSR initiatives, it increasingly also examines government programs for CSR. However, research on how governments contribute to CSR has mainly focused on domestic and not international CSR challenges. This literature also does not specify whether governments shape CSR through mandatory regulation or supportive initiatives. This article adopts a process‐tracing approach to determine how governments regulate international CSR. It demonstrates that the legal and political systems in the liberal market economies of the UK and the US lead to different forms of public CSR regulation — notably in the areas of labour standards in apparel and tax transparency in extractives. The UK government has been more likely to support bottom‐up collaborative multi‐stakeholder initiatives, whereas the US government has favoured top‐down mandatory regulation.

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Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Knudsen

2017

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…While the US and the UK are both liberal market economies their legal systems differ. The US has a stronger tradition for pursuing solutions to regulatory problems through its legal system than the UK does (Aguilera et al., ; Werner, ). Regarding corporations and their relationships with stakeholders in the UK, NGOs are very involved in working out regulatory solutions while this is less the case in the US (Aguilera et al., ).…”

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How Do Domestic Regulatory Traditions Shape CSR in Large International US and UK Firms?

Knudsen

2017

Global Policy

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This article examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) pertaining to labor standards in apparel and tax transparency in extractives and explores how domestic regulatory traditions shape CSR in large international US and UK firms. Reflecting their more collaborative business‐government traditions, British firms are more willing to join international CSR multi‐stakeholder initiatives with business‐critical actors such as unions and civil society actors. The US has a more top‐down regulatory approach, which promotes hard law international CSR or encourages business‐driven voluntary CSR initiatives. This article makes three contributions. First, it argues that while corporations are the key actors in international CSR, their behavior reflects their respective national business systems. Second, focusing on a range of international CSR initiatives, this article finds that UK firms are more interested in adopting international (multi‐stakeholder) CSR initiatives than US firms. Finally, the article shows that the US and the UK governments play a key role in driving an international CSR agenda, and in doing this it highlights government agency more so than other research has.

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“…We construct a Guttman scale that models the intensity of state actions related to environmental injustice. This variable, like other policy scales (see Clark & Allen, ; Fisher & Nice, ; Mooney & Lee, ; Mycoff, Wagner, & Wilson, ; Werner, ) offers a measure of intensity in state EJ policy effort.…”

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States of Environmental Justice: Redistributive Politics across the United States, 1993–2004

Abel

Salazar

Robert³

2015

Review of Policy Research

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In the 20 years since a president committed federal government agencies to achieving environmental justice (EJ), states have been at the forefront of policy development. But states have varied in the nature and extent of their EJ efforts. We use Guttman Scaling to measure state EJ effort and test hypotheses regarding the relative importance of problem severity, politics, and administrative variables to variation in state policy development. Our analysis offers a novel characterization of state policy intensity and demonstrates its scalability. Income-based problem severity, environmental group membership, and nonwhite populations were important predictors of state EJ policy intensity during our study period. The political geography of EJ policy also displayed a distinctive southern pattern and the EJ policy intensity model contrasted significantly with a model of environmental policy innovation. The findings suggest that state EJ politics are more indicative of redistributive policy than regulatory.

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Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business

Cited by 57 publications

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Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

Government Regulation of International Corporate Social Responsibility in the US and the UK: How Domestic Institutions Shape Mandatory and Supportive Initiatives

How Do Domestic Regulatory Traditions Shape CSR in Large International US and UK Firms?

States of Environmental Justice: Redistributive Politics across the United States, 1993–2004

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