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Institutional Predictors of and Complements to Industry Self‐regulation with Regard to Labor Practices
Author(s) -
Buren Harry J.,
Patterson Karen D. W.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
business and society review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1467-8594
pISSN - 0045-3609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8594.2012.00412.x
Subject(s) - stakeholder , variety (cybernetics) , ethical code , business ethics , corporate social responsibility , business , institutional theory , public relations , work (physics) , code of conduct , stakeholder theory , code (set theory) , industrial organization , marketing , accounting , economics , political science , management , law , mechanical engineering , set (abstract data type) , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering , programming language
In recent years, there has been increasing managerial and academic attention given to a variety of mechanisms for companies to respond to stakeholder concerns about global business ethics. One area that merits further analysis is the role of industry‐level cooperation regarding issues in global business ethics such as labor practices. There are two main issues that we will address in this article: institutional pressures that predict when an industry will create a code of conduct and institutional complements for an industry‐level code of conduct to be “successful” with regard to responding to stakeholder concerns about international business operations. We offer a number of propositions—bringing together work from both the corporate social responsibility and (neo)institutional theory literatures—with regard to both predictors and complements of industry self‐regulation in reference to labor practices.