Business Regulation and Non-state Actors

The growth of markets and global corporations have raised concerns regarding their social and environmental impacts, and that traditional ways of regulating business by government and self-regulation apparently have been unable to control them. The authors evaluate the successes and limitations of new non-state or multi-stakeholder institutions that focus on holding corporations accountable and improving business social and environmental practices. Subjects addressed include: activism, business regulation, and development; assessing the ETI code of labor practice, social accountability 8000 and socioeconomic development, the UN Global Compact and development, the Forest Stewardship Council, the Worker Rights Consortium, and global retail accumulation strategies and Wal-Mart's CSR regime. Editors are Reed (business and society, York U., Canada), Utting (deputy director, UN Research Institute for Social Development), and Mukherjee-Reed (political science, York U., Canada). Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Darryl Reed is Associate Professor in the Business and Society Program at York University, Canada.

Peter Utting is Deputy Director at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.

Ananya Mukherjee-Reed is Professor, Department of Political Science at York University, Canada.