Why Do Private Governance Organizations Not Converge? A Political–Institutional Analysis of Transnational Labor Standards Regulation

摘要: Voluntary governance arrangements focusing on responsible business behavior have proliferated over the past decades, and in many sectors of industry, different organizations now compete for participation. This private competition has negative consequences effective functioning these arrangements. In literature up until now, optimism prevails how a process policy convergence between may come about that would solve some problems arise because this competition. It is remarkable, however, one key industries referred to literature, garments virtually absent. article explains why so suggests next three existing approaches evolution possible organizations, actually fourth, pessimistic type should be introduced, taking into account perseverance political difference interest groups creating supporting