This chapter discusses the role of voluntary standards for corporate sustainability and responsibility as enablers of and impediments to sustainable consumption. We start by theoretically reflecting on the notion of standards, discussing different characteristics of this mode of regulation. Next...

This introductory essay argues that the use of the concept of deliberative democracy in CSR re-search needs to be theoretically extended. We review three developments that have recently oc-curred in deliberative democracy theory within political science and philosophy: (1) the concep-tualization...

Although the literature on multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) for sustainability has grown in recent years, it is scattered across several academic fields, making it hard to ascertain how individual disciplines such as business ethics can further contribute to the debate. Based on an extensive...