Corporate Leadership, Multilevel Enforcement and Biodiversity Regulation

João Paulo Cândia Veiga (), Fausto Makishi, Murilo Alves Zacareli and Thiago Augusto Hiromitsu Terada
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João Paulo Cândia Veiga: University of São Paulo
Fausto Makishi: University of São Paulo
Murilo Alves Zacareli: University of São Paulo
Thiago Augusto Hiromitsu Terada: Beraca Institute

Journal of Business, 2016, vol. 1, issue 3, 43-53

Abstract: Globalization incentives the rise of non-state actors in unprecedented ways along with the creation of transnational arenas which are neither international (intergovernmental) nor national (domestic), but transborder political processes where firms, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), states and social communities set up rules and provide governance mechanisms to enforce those at local level. The article is anchored in the idea that public-private governance matters where the primary driver is the market incentive. We test the hypotheses that public-private cooperation at local level is based on shared knowledge and expertise among firms, civil society and state authority dealing with a natural resource which comes from the Brazilian biodiversity. The central argument of this article is that the construction of a transnational arena to discuss issues such as sustainability, environment and social welfare determines the formation of a complex institutional environment, enforcement mechanisms and compliance which are heterogeneously dispersed. This paper develops a case study based on the leadership of Beraca in providing local governance for natural inputs.NGOs and companies have developed the ability to act as enforcers as they interpret the public international/national regulation and develop an expertise through ‘best practices’ that are applied to enforce biodiversity regulation at the local level through a multilevel system that operates transnationally.

Keywords: Biodiversity; Corporatism; Governance; Regulation; Transnational. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q23 Q43 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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