This article aims to inform the long-standing and unresolved debate between voluntary corporate social responsibility and initiatives to impose binding legal obligations on multinational enterprises. The two approaches share a common feature: neither can fully specify its own scope conditions, that is, how much of the people and planet agenda either can expect to deliver. The reason they share this feature is also the same: neither is based on a foundational political analysis of the multinational enterprise in the context of global governance. Such an analysis is essential for providing background to and perspective on what either approach can hope to achieve, and how. This article begins to bridge the gap by illustrating aspects of the political power, authority, and relative autonomy of the contemporary multinational enterprise. The conclusion spells out some implications for the debate itself, and for further research.

Multinationals as global institution: Power, authority and relative autonomy

List of tables Notes on contributors Preface 1. Introduction: law and compliance at different levels Michael Zurn 2. The analysis of compliance with international rules: definitions, variables and methodology Jurgen Neyer and Dieter Wolf 3. State aid control at the national, European and international level Dieter Wolf 4. Domestic limits of supranational law: comparing compliance with European and international foodstuffs regulations Jurgen Neyer 5. Politics of intergovernmental redistribution: comparing compliance with European and federal redistributive regulations Jurgen Neyer 6. Conclusions - the conditions of compliance Michael Zurn and Jurgen Neyer 7. Compliance research in legal perspectives Christian Joerges References Index.

Law and Governance in Postnational Europe. Compliance Beyond the Nation-State

Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world’s leading source of Web reference information Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspectives This article presents a systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia We describe our detailed, rigorous methodology for identifying over 450 scholarly studies of Wikipedia We present the WikiLit website (http wikilit dot referata dot com), where most of the papers reviewed here are described in detail In the major section of this article, we then categorize and summarize the studies An appendix features an extensive list of resources useful for Wikipedia researchers

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The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

This article proposes a review of the literature analyzing Wikipedia as a collective system for producing knowledge. JEL Classification: L39, L86, H41, D71

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What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s).

I here give an overview of Wikipedia and wiki research and tools. Well over 1,000 reports have been published in the eld and there exist dedicated scientic meetings for Wikipedia research. It is not possible to give a complete review of all material published. This overview serves to describe some key areas of research. i

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Wikipedia research and tools: Review and comments

Global Law's Toolbox: Private Regulation by Standards

Freiheit und Funktion : zur Struktur- und Theoriegeschichte des Rechts der Wirtschaftsgesellschaft

JIPITEC 1 (2010) 2 - Open collaborative projects are
moving to the foreground of knowledge production.
Some online user communities develop into longterm projects that generate a highly valuable and at
the same time freely accessible output. Traditional
copyright law that is organized around the idea of a
single creative entity is not well equipped to accommodate the needs of these forms of collaboration. In
order to enable a peculiar network-type of interaction
participants instead draw on public licensing models
that determine the freedoms to use individual contributions. With the help of these access rules the
operational logic of the project can be implemented
successfully. However, as the case of the Wikipedia
GFDL-CC license transition demonstrates, the adaptation of access rules in networks to new circumstances raises collective action problems and suffers
from pitfalls caused by the fact that public licensing is
grounded in individual copyright.
Legal governance of open collaboration projects is a
largely unexplored field. The article argues that the license steward of a public license assumes the position of a fiduciary of the knowledge commons generated under the license regime. Ultimately, the
governance of decentralized networks translates
into a composite of organizational and contractual elements. It is concluded that the production of global
knowledge commons relies on rules of transnational
private law.

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Governance of Massive Multiauthor Collaboration – Linux, Wikipedia, and Other Networks: Governed by Bilateral Contracts, Partnerships, or Something in Between?

Seit Franz Böhm der Privatrechtslehre die \"Befassung mit dem Sozialeffekt privatrechtlicher Institutionen\" zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, 1 kann die Rechtsanwendung nicht mehr der Frage ausweichen, welche Wirkung die Inanspruchnahme von Freiheitsrechten in der Gesellschaft hat. Aus freiheitlichem Handeln der Einzelnen entstehen kollektive Ordnungen. Weil diese ihrerseits über die tatsächlichen Bedingungen für autonomes Handeln entscheiden, ist die Wirkung der Ausübung von Rechten auf jene Ordnungen ein normatives, das Recht beschäftigendes Problem. Das Recht hat sich dieser Aufgabe in der Folgezeit der Debatte um das Wirtschaftsrecht, in deren Zusammenhang auch die Position von Böhm steht, mit besonderer Aufmerksamkeit gegenüber der Eigengesetzlichkeit der Wirtschaft angenommen. 2 Wie aber verhält sich das Privatrecht zu anderen sozialen Ordnungen, etwa

Die epistemische Analyse des Rechts: Von der ökonomischen zur ökologischen Rationalität in der Rechtswissenschaft

Sociological Jurisprudence. Commemorative Publication in Honor of Gunther Teubner’s 65th Birthday on 30 April 2009: Festschrift für Gunther Teubner zum 65. Geburtstag am 30. April 2009

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Global Law's Toolbox: Private Regulation by Standards

Freiheit und Funktion : zur Struktur- und Theoriegeschichte des Rechts der Wirtschaftsgesellschaft

Governance of Massive Multiauthor Collaboration – Linux, Wikipedia, and Other Networks: Governed by Bilateral Contracts, Partnerships, or Something in Between?

Die epistemische Analyse des Rechts: Von der ökonomischen zur ökologischen Rationalität in der Rechtswissenschaft

Sociological Jurisprudence. Commemorative Publication in Honor of Gunther Teubner’s 65th Birthday on 30 April 2009: Festschrift für Gunther Teubner zum 65. Geburtstag am 30. April 2009