Despite the several benefits attributed to voluntary standards, these standards may open room to strategies aiming at …

tolerance standards: organics (i.e., zero-synthetic chemicals). The focus is on the governance of organic standards in the rural …

With the proliferation of private standards many significant decisions regarding public health risks, food safety, and … grounded in political economy, we explain the rise of private standards and specific actors – notably supermarkets – in the …

efforts, today such efforts have largely shifted to Tripartite Standards Regimes (TSRs). Using a case study of the Leonardo … Academy’s initiative to develop a US sustainable agriculture standard, this paper examines the standards-development process …

Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

standards and certification, to advance environmental sustainability and social justice. Using a case study of an ecological … voluntary standards and certification. Specifically, efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control became key …

Thanks to an original database on French firms we investigate the impact of environmental-related standards on … employees’ recruitment. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that voluntary environmental-related standards (i.e., ISO 14001 …

This paper presents a political economy model of public standards in an open economy model. We use the model to derive …-standardization?or `over-standardization?results, and which standards can be labeled as (producer)protectionist measures. …