Hybrid Production Regimes and Labor Agency in Transnational Private Governance

Jean-Christophe Graz (), Nicole Helmerich () and Cécile Prébandier ()
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Jean-Christophe Graz: Université de Lausanne
Nicole Helmerich: Université de Lausanne
Cécile Prébandier: Université de Lausanne

Journal of Business Ethics, 2020, vol. 162, issue 2, No 4, 307-321

Abstract: Abstract Little consensus exists about the effectiveness of transnational private governance in domains such as labor, the environment, or human rights. The paper builds on recent scholarship on labor standards to emphasize the role of labor agency in transnational private governance. It argues that the relationship between transnational private regulatory initiatives and labor agency depends on three competences: first, the ability of workers’ organizations to gain access to processes of employment regulation, implementation, and monitoring; second, their ability to insist on the inclusion of employers and state agencies within such processes; and third, the ability of workers to effectively exercise leverage in pursuit of particular goals. The paper develops a framework, called hybrid production regime, for examining how workers’ capacity to act at the local level depends on how these three collective competences are addressed in the institutionalization of capital–labor relations between the transnational and national levels.

Keywords: Agency; Corporate social responsibility; Hybrid production regime; International political economy; Labor standards; Multi-stakeholder initiatives; Power; Transnational private governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04172-1

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