Responsible Business : Self-Governance and Law in Transnational Economic Transactions.

Prelims -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Private Accountability in a Globalising World -- Part I Corporate Responsibility and the Law -- 1 Global Legal Pluralism and Interlegality: Environmental Self-Regulation in Multinational Enterprises as Global Law-Making -- 2 Bridging the Gap: The Legal Potential of Private Regulation -- 3 Codes of Conduct and Framework Agreements on Social Minimum Standards-Private Regulation? -- Part II Standards of Transnational Business Networks and the Law -- 4 Proactive Compliance? Repercussions of National Product Regulation in Standards of Transnational Business Networks -- 5 Transnational Management of Hazardous Chemicals by Interfirm Cooperation and Associations -- 6 The New Universe of Green Finance: From Self-Regulation to Multi-Polar Governance -- Part III Consumer based Self-Regulation and the Law -- 7 The Social and Technical Self-Governance of Privacy -- 8 Transnational Consumer Law: Co-Regulation of B2C E-Commerce -- 9 Multi-Interest Self-Governance through Global Product Certification Programmes -- 10 State and Private Sector in a Cooperative Regulation: The Forest Stewardship Council and other Product Labels in Brazil -- Part IV Transnational Self-Governance in Perspective -- 11 Regulatory Networks and Multi-Level Global Governance -- Index.

The volume combines empirical and legal research to explore the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry.

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