Among the factors providing incentives to monitor the behaviour of input suppliers are the
regulatory requirements to which downstream firms are subject. We develop a formal …

Our article uses a new institutional economics (NIE) framework to explore the role of
voluntary industry standards in the development and implementation of environmental …

A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is a vital lever in
achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental …

ABSTRACT The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises is one among several
systems of guidelines that purport to provide standards of social and environmental …

Environmental regulation has important implications on the design and operation of
sustainable supply chains. In particular, driving supply chains towards environmental …

Voluntary programs are now widely used by governments and other actors to improve the
environmental performance of firms beyond regulatory compliance. However, it is important …

The growing practice of environmental supply chain management by firms constitutes
private sector regulation that is analogous in many ways to public sector regulation. Similarly …

Concern about environmental issues and pressure on manufacturing firms to decrease their
environmental impact have both intensified since the early 1980s. At present legislation is …

Recent research on regulation and governance suggests that a mixture of public and private
interventions is necessary to improve working conditions and environmental standards …

Health, safety, and environmental regulations have been traditionally perceived as distinct
entities from trade policy, yet today they have become intertwined on a global scale. In this …