Responsible Business: Self-Governance and Law in Transnational Economic Transactions (Oñati International Series in Law and Society)

With the globalisation of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalised. Against the backdrop of the territoriality of nation state jurisdictions and the slow progress of international law based on the principle of sovereignty this poses a serious challenge. However while the legal infrastructure of globalised markets has a firm basis in formal national and international law, the side effects of economic transactions on public goods such as the environment, human health and consumer interests often escape state-based regulation. Therefore, attention is drawn to the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry. While hypotheses abound which try to grasp this phenomenon in conceptual terms, both empirical and legal research is still underdeveloped. This volume helps to fill this gap, in two ways: firstly by reconstructing self-regulatory settings such as multinational corporations, transnational production networks and industry-NGO partnerships in terms of organisation, problem-solving and legitimation, and secondly, by linking their empirical findings to formal law by examining how legal concepts are reflected in self-regulation, how the law builds on self-regulatory solutions, and how it helps to establish favorable conditions for private governance. 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With the globalization of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalized. Against the backdrop of the territoriality of nation-state jurisdictions and the slow progress of international law based on the principle of sovereignty, this poses a serious challenge. However, while the legal infrastructure of globalized markets has a firm basis in formal, national, and international law, the side effects of economic transactions on public goods, such as the environment, human health, and consumer interests often escape state-based regulation. Therefore, attention is drawn to the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry. While hypotheses abound which try to grasp this phenomenon in conceptual terms, both empirical and legal research is still underdeveloped. Responsible Business helps to fill this gap in two ways. First, the book recontructs self-regulatory settings - such as multinational corporations, transnational production networks, and industry-NGO partnerships - in terms of organization, problem-solving, and legitimation. Secondly, it links their empirical findings to formal law by examining how legal concepts are reflected in self-regulation, how the law builds on self-regulatory solutions, and how it helps to establish favorable conditions for private governance. The essays in this volume are well-grounded and will be important to those interested in the sociological aspects of company and insolvency law. (Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society) Private Accountability In A Globalising World / Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg, Gerd Winter -- Global Legal Pluralism And Interlegality : Environmental Self-regulation In Multinational Enterprises As Global Law-making / Martin Herberg -- Bridging The Gap : The Legal Potential Of Private Regulation / Carola Glinski -- Codes Of Conduct And Framework Agreements On Social Minimum Standards - Private Regulation? / Eva Kocher -- Proactive Compliance? Repercussions Of National Product Regulation In Standards Of Transnational Business Networks / Olaf Dilling -- Transnational Management Of Hazardous Chemicals By Interfirm Cooperation And Associations / Alexandra Lindenthal -- The New Universe Of Green Finance : From Self-regulation To Multi-polar Governance / Oren Perez -- The Social And Technical Self-governance Of Privacy / Ralf Bendrath -- Transnational Consumer Law : Co-regulation Of B2c E-commerce / Gralf-peter Calliess -- Multi-interest Self-governance Through Global Product Certification Programmes / Errol Meidinger -- State And Private Sector In A Cooperative Regulation : The Forest Stewardship Council And Other Product Labels In Brazil / Cristiane Derani, Jose Augusto Fontoura Costa -- Regulatory Networks And Multi-level Global Governance / Sol Picciotto. Edited By Olaf Dilling, Martin Herberg, And Gerd Winter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. With the globalisation of markets, the phenomenon of market failure has also been globalised. This work includes a collection of empirical studies concerning self-regulation. Suitable for those interested in the sociological aspects of company and insolvency law, it features contributors who are experienced sociologists and public law scholars Examines the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry in areas such as the environment, human health and consumer interests which often escape state-based regulation.