The 'trade and environment' nexus emerged over the last decade as one of the main concerns of the anti-globalization movement. The dyad 'trade-environment' was invoked increasingly as if it designates a singular social dilemma, whose boundaries and contours are well defined. This article...

The idea of “green economy,” which was placed on the global agenda by the Rio 20 conference, claims to serve as a bridge between the demands of global capitalism and the vision of sustainability. In the corporate social responsibility literature, writers such as Michael Porter and Mark...

The article seeks to improve our understanding of the strategies judges use to deal with conflicting expert evidence. In contrast to the paradigm of the Herculean Judge, the article hypothesizes that courts resolve epistemic disputes by drawing, in part, on higher-order heuristics, which either...

In designing a recycling policy, the regulator must choose between multiple instruments. Our study seeks to address the linkage between the choice of regulatory instruments and institutional frameworks, people's intrinsic motivation, and various attitudinal measures. We examined the behavioral...

The article exposes a new form of global governance based on an emergent network of corporate social responsibility (CSR) schemes. Our study is the first to uncover the network structure of this system, based on a dataset that includes 61 transnational CSR schemes and 31,987 firms. We...

This article seeks to develop a better understanding of the limits and potential of the Internet to foster democratic processes by taking a closer look at a Wiki-based consultation process which was conducted by AccountAbility, a transnational NGO dealing with corporate responsibility and...