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...

Corporate climate commitments are an important part of the global response to climate change, but critics have warned that many of these pledges constitute greenwashing – empty commitments whose credibility is difficult to assess at best. Government regulators in the European Union and the...

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- 1. Deconstructing the Trade and Environment Conflict: A Pluralistic Perspective -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE TRADE-ENVIRONMENT NEXUS -- 1.3...