Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative |
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Authors: | Niklas Egels-Zandén Evelina Wahlqvist |
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Affiliation: | 1.Centre for Business in Society,School of Business, Economics and Law at G?teborg University,G?teborg,Sweden;2.Department of Human and Economic Geography,School of Business, Economics and Law at G?teborg University,G?teborg,Sweden |
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Abstract: | 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’. |
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Keywords: | actor-network theory (ANT) Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) codes of conduct corporate responsibility garment industry institutional theory partnership supplier relations |
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