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Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
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- Egels-Zandén, Niklas, 1978 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI),Företagsekonomiska institutionen, Studier av organisation och samhälle,Department of Business Administration, Studies of Organization and Society
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- Wahlqvist, Evelina, 1979 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen,Department of Human and Economic Geography
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(creator_code:org_t)
- 2006-10-28
- 2007
- English.
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In: Journal of Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0167-4544. ; 70:2, s. 175-189
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- While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their eyes, inefficient and unproductive cross-sectoral partnerships, firms are starting to form post-cross-sectoral partnerships (‚post-partnerships’) open exclusively to corporations. This paper examines one such post-partnership project, the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI), to analyse the possibility of post-partnerships establishing stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’. We do this by creating a theoretical framework based on actor-network theory (ANT) and institutional theory. Using this framework, we show that post-partnerships suffer from the paradox of striving to marginalise those stakeholders whose support they need␣for establishing stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’. We conclude by discussing whether or not post-partnership strategies, despite this paradox, can be expected to establish stable definitions of ‚corporate responsibility’.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- actor–network theory (ANT)
- Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI)
- codes of conduct
- corporate responsibility
- garment industry
- institutional theory
- supplier relations
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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