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2025
Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx
Fostering compliance with voluntary sustainability standards through i...
The institutional design of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) has been recognized as an important determinant of compliance with VSS rules, which partly expla...
2025
Eva Boonaert, Charline Depoorter, Axe...
Carrots rather than sticks: Governance of voluntary sustainability sta...
Aligned with the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have gained prominence as market-based tools for sustainability govern...
2025
Elke S. Schuessler, Nora Lohmeyer and...
“We Can’t Compete on Human Rights”: Creating Market-Protected Sp...
To what extent are multinational corporations able to address societal challenges through voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Based on an in-depth quali...
2025
Stephen J Frenkel, Elke S Schuessler
From Rana Plaza to COVID-19: Deficiencies and opportunities for a new ...
The 2013 Rana Plaza disaster highlighted the failure of labour regulation in global garment value chains. Eight years on, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, what...
2025
Sarah Ashwin, Chikako Oka, Elke Schue...
Spillover Effects across Transnational Industrial Relations Agreements...
Using qualitative data from interviews with multiple respondents in 45 garment brands and retailers, as well as respondents from unions and other stakeholders, the a...
2025
Samuel Siewers
The (other) China shock and the Brazilian soy boom: Cui bono?...
Building upon the argument that factor endowments influence distributional outcomes, this paper examines the consequences of the China shock to global food markets f...
2025
Samuel Siewers, Inmaculada Martínez-...
Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance...
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Ce...
2025
Franca Angela Buelow, Ann Brower, Nic...
Framing resilience: Post-disaster communication in Aotearoa-New Zealan...
Realising resilience requires long-term, strategic transformation. However, this is often forestalled by immediate, often reactive, post-disaster needs. Here, we use...
2025
Sandra Ricart, Antonio Rico, Nick Kir...
How to improve governance in multifunctional irrigation systems? Balan...
The aim of this article is to conduct an evidence-based analysis of stakeholder engagement in decision-making processes affecting multifunctional irrigation systems....
2025
Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry, Stephen F...
Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand’s primary industries: Known, no...
Climate sensitive primary industries including pastoral farming, high-value horticulture and viticulture are central to Aotearoa-New Zealand’s economy. While advan...
