While there is considerable literature on firms' motivations to form and join private
environmental standards, less has been written on motivations to strengthen standards …

Voluntary standards certifying environmental qualities of labeled products have proliferated
across sectors and countries. Effectuating these standards requires the collaboration among …

Private environmental standards attempt, in part, to internalize environmental externalities.
Offsetting firms' environmental externalities by buying credits is one option. Another is …

In this paper I explore the remaking of globalized standards through harmonization, and its
impact upon certified-organic and fair-trade agrofood networks. I focus on certification …

This paper presents a model of quality choice in the case of credence goods, ie, when
consumers cannot observe quality even after purchase. It shows that firms may voluntarily …

Problem definition: We develop a framework for studying the impact of voluntary ecolabels
and mandatory environmental regulation on green product development among competing …

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

Why has the market uptake and sophistication of information-based environmental
governance (IBEG) programs like eco-labeling increased despite mixed signals on the …

Certification of adherence to social and environmental standards allows companies involved
in the (global) trade of commodities to dissociate themselves from negative impacts in the …

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 …