Organizing Transnational AccountabilityChristina Garsten In the expanding academic literature on accountability, there remains significant ambiguity about the scope and content of this concept. Bostr”m and Garsten have performed an invaluable service to scholars by providing a fresh focus on how accountability |
Contents
1 Organizing for accountability | 1 |
regulating social accountability for global business | 27 |
3 ISO expands its business into Social Responsibility | 46 |
the Forest Stewardship Council as a good governance model | 61 |
corporate selfpresentations in response to public criticism | 80 |
6 Watchdogs beyond control? The accountability of accounting standards organizations | 98 |
accountability for what and to whom? | 114 |
organizing accountability in EU employment policy | 131 |
from doing the right thing to doing the thing right | 147 |
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ability accountability arrangements accountability tools accounting standards action actors agenda argue auditing auditors authority Boström boundaries Brent Spar Brunsson certification schemes challenges Chapter citizens Code Commission companies conflicts consumers corporate governance corporate social responsibility critical cultural debate decisions democratic disclosure discussion Edward Elgar employment environment environmental governance European evaluate example expertise experts firms forest Forest Stewardship Council framing Garsten Global Compact groups Gulbrandsen held accountable human rights industry interests International involved issues Jacobsson labour market legitimacy legitimate ments networks NGOs Norms nuclear waste organizational Oskarshamn participation Pellizzoni perspective political problems public consultations question regulation regulatory relation relationships representatives risk role rules Sarbanes-Oxley Act Shell stakeholders standard setters standard setting standards organizations Stockholm School suppliers Swedish Tamm Hallström tions transnational corporations transparency triple bottom line UN Global Compact voluntary