The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility. By David Vogel. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institute, 2005. 222p. $28.95.Is there a “market for virtue”? If so, what can it do, and what can it not do to improve our world? In his incisive new book, David Vogel takes aim at these questions and the now-fashionable claim that there is a business case for corporate social responsibility (CSR). He concludes that there is no business case that can be generalized to all firms per se, but there is a political case for broadening what we mean by that much-used term.

The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

Business-NGO partnerships in global value chains: part of the solution or part of the problem of sustainable change?

The MIT Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-262-52480-3, xii+390 pp. The world market for certified rural products (organic, fair trade, sustainable, green, etc.) has already reached the 50-billion-dollar-a-y...

Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihoods and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America

This article examines the circumstances under which corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives facilitate and/or constrain labour agency in global production networks (GPNs). Using a case study of Nike’s CSR approach in the football manufacturing industry of Pakistan, we explore the extent to which the measures advocated in a new, emerging policy paradigm on CSR in GPNs enabled labour agency at Nike’s main football supplier factory in Pakistan. We argue that while such CSR policies can create enhanced space for labour agency, that potential agency is also shaped (i) by wider economic forces within the global economy and (ii) relationships with local/national actors and regulatory frameworks. Understanding the intersection of these dimensions becomes vital to interpreting the potential for, and activation of, labour agency within CSR-influenced GPNs.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Labour Agency: The Case of Nike in Pakistan

How has globalisation affected the female labour force? Globalisation often refers to the deepening of international economic relations. It is a historic phenomenon but recent interpretations have focused on policies of greater financial liberalisation, trade liberalisation, deflationary macroeconomic policies, fiscal restraint, privatisation, and the introduction of market principles into the public sector.

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Gendered Impacts of Globalization: Employment and Social Protection

Introduction: Multistakeholder Regulation in a Development Perspective Peter Utting 1. Development and the Problematic of Non-State Regulation Darryl Reed 2. Activism, Business Regulation and Development Peter Utting 3. Assessing the ETI Codes of Labour Practice Stephane Barrientos and Sally Smith 4. Social Accountability 8000 and Socioeconomic Development Andreas Rasche and Dirk Ulrich Gilbert 5. The International Organizaiton for Standardization Stepan Wood 6. The United Nations Global Compact and Development Catia Gregoratti 7. The Global Reporting Initiative: Promise and Limitations David L. Levy and Halina Szejnwald Brown 8. Balanco Social and Sustainability Reporting in Brazil Eduardo R. Gomes and Ana Maria Kirschner 9. The Forest Stewardship Council Graeme Auld and Benjamin Cashore 10. The Marine Stewardship Council Graeme Auld 11. The Global G.A.P. Agni Kalfagianni and Doris Fuchs 12. Global Retail Accululation Strategies and Wal-Mart's CSR Regime Ngai-Ling Sum 13. Applying the Atlanta Agreement on Child Labour in South Asia Peter Lund-Thomsen and Khalid Nadvi 14. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Carola Kantz 15. Blood Diamonds, Non-State Actors and Development: The Kimberley Process and Beyond Ian Smillie 16. Peoples' Tribunals in Latin America Marcelo Saguier 17. The Worker Rights Consortium Don Wells 18. International Framework Agreements and Development Nikolaus Hammer 19. IFOAM and the Instiutionalization of Organic Agriculture Rene Audet and Corinne Gendron 20. 'Fair Trade Gold': Prospects for Africa's Artisanal Miners Gavin Hilson and Paul Kamlongera 21. The World Fair Trade Organization: From Trust to Compliance Eileen Davenport and William Low 22. Fairtrade International (FLO) Darryl Reed 23. Comercio Justo Mexico: Potential Lessons for Fairtrade? Alistair M. Smith and Francisco VanDerHoff Boersma 24. From Non-State Regulation to Governance? Shifting the Site of Contestation Darryl Reed and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed

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