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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Voluntary programs. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009 (DLC) 2009008122 (OCoLC)314113447 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Potoski; Aseem Prakash |
| ISBN: | 9780262259132 0262259133 |
| OCLC Number: | 471917112 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 342 p.) |
| Contents: | A club theory approach to voluntary programs / Matthew Potoski and Asem Prakash -- Clubs, credence standards, and social pressure / David P. Baron -- An economics perspective on treating voluntary programs as clubs / Matthew J. Kotchen and Klaas van 't Veld -- The Kimberley process, club goods, and public enforcement of a private regime / Virginia Haufler -- Standards for sweatshops: the power and limits of the club approach to voluntary labor standards / Tim Bartley -- Voluntary agreements and the shipping industry / Elizabeth R. DeSombre -- Technical standards as public and club goods? Financing the International Accounting Standards Board / Tim Büthe -- How universal are club standards?: emerging markets and volunteerism / Daniel W. Drezner and Mimi Lu -- Green clubs: a new tool for government? / Daniel J. Fiorino -- Government clubs: theory and evidence from environmental programs / Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash -- Self-regulation and voluntary programs among nonprofit organizations / Mary Kay Gugerty -- Voluntary clubs: future prospects / Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash. |
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"Voluntary Programs identifies two key problems with arrangements to induce firms to be socially responsible: incentives to join and dangers of shirking. It emphasizes the value to participants, under scarce-information conditions, of reputations held in common, and explores the strengths and weaknesses of club theory. This well-designed and well-integrated volume makes significant empirical as well as theoretical contributions to its subject." --Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University "A good theoretical foundation backed up with strong empirical evidence makes Voluntary Programs an outstanding volume for the social sciences. I strongly recommend it." --Elinor Ostrom, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University "The editors have assembled an intellectually diverse and highly distinguished group of scholars who collectively have made important theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature on voluntary business codes. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in better understanding the political and organizational dynamics of business self-regulation." --David Vogel, Haas School of Business, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley "Using various analytical techniques, this volume makes an important contribution to the literature on voluntary programs, especially as regards the linkages between program design and efficacy." --Dick Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future Read more...
