Legitimation strategies of corporate elites in the field of labor regulation: Changing responses to Global Framework Agreements
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Elites on trial. Hrsg. / Glenn Morgan; Paul Hirsch; Sigrid Quack. Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2015. S. 243-268 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Band 43).
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T1 - Legitimation strategies of corporate elites in the field of labor regulation
T2 - Changing responses to Global Framework Agreements
AU - Helfen, Markus
AU - Schüßler, Elke
AU - Botzem, Sebastian
N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright © 2015 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
PY - 2015/2/10
Y1 - 2015/2/10
N2 - Corporate elites are increasingly held responsible for issues of sustain-ability including working conditions and workers' rights in global production networks. We still know relatively little about how they respond to concrete stakeholder initiatives aiming to restrict corporate voluntarism through transnational regulation. In this paper we report comparative findings on corporate legitimation strategies in response to requests by labor representatives to sign Global Framework Agreements (GFAs). These agreements are intended to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for the implementation of core labor standards across their supply chains. We propose to broaden management-focused analyses of corporate legitimation strategies by applying a field-oriented perspective that considers the embeddedness of management in a broader web of strategic activity and variable opportunity structures. Our findings suggest that legitimation strategies are developed dynamically along with the rules, positions, and understandings developing around specific regulatory issues in sequences of interactions between elites and challenging groups.
AB - Corporate elites are increasingly held responsible for issues of sustain-ability including working conditions and workers' rights in global production networks. We still know relatively little about how they respond to concrete stakeholder initiatives aiming to restrict corporate voluntarism through transnational regulation. In this paper we report comparative findings on corporate legitimation strategies in response to requests by labor representatives to sign Global Framework Agreements (GFAs). These agreements are intended to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for the implementation of core labor standards across their supply chains. We propose to broaden management-focused analyses of corporate legitimation strategies by applying a field-oriented perspective that considers the embeddedness of management in a broader web of strategic activity and variable opportunity structures. Our findings suggest that legitimation strategies are developed dynamically along with the rules, positions, and understandings developing around specific regulatory issues in sequences of interactions between elites and challenging groups.
KW - Management studies
KW - Legitimation
KW - sustainability
KW - Global Framework Agreements
KW - transnational regulation
KW - Legitimation
KW - Sustainability
KW - Global Framework Agreements
KW - Transnational regulation
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/46b5e8e9-b9da-3124-8cc3-e5e17c384a05/
U2 - 10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043021
DO - 10.1108/S0733-558X20150000043021
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:84922828492
SN - 978-1-78441-680-5
T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
SP - 243
EP - 268
BT - Elites on trial
A2 - Morgan, Glenn
A2 - Hirsch, Paul
A2 - Quack, Sigrid
PB - Emerald Publishing
CY - Bingley
ER -