Research Catalog

Title

Governing through standards : origins, drivers and limitations / edited by Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon, and Jakob Vestergaard.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Ponte, Stefano.
• Gibbon, Peter.
• Vestergaard, Jakob.

Description

xvi, 315 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Governing through standards - rather than through law and regulation - is one of the central trends that has emerged in industrialized countries since the 1980s. This collection explains how and why standards are used as governance tools, how they are internally governed, and what effects they have in the real world. An interdisciplinary group of scholars examines standards in banking and accounting, quality management and organizational social responsibility, and sustainability standards. Applying theoretical frameworks within political economy and governmentality studies, the contributors analyze how governing through standards differs from other types of regulation. Finally, they shed light on the origins and drivers behind standards and the limitations of using standards as a governance tool. -- Book Cover.

Series Statement

International political economy series

Uniform Title

International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subject

• Total quality management in government
• Performance standards
• Public administration
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Governing through standards: an introduction / Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon, Jakob Vestergaard -- The rise of banking standards and their limits / Kevin L. Young -- The new standard in banking regulation: from Basel II to Basel III / Jakob Vestergaard, Martin Højland -- Reforming global banking standards: back to the future? / Ranjit Lall -- Moving beyond nuts and bolts: the complexities of governing a global profession through international standards / Christopher Humphrey, Anne Loft -- On the pre-history of ISO 9000: the making of a neo-liberal standard / Peter Gibbon, Lasse Folke Henriksen -- ISO 26000, alternative standards, and the 'social movement of engineers' involved with standard setting / Craig N. Murphy, JoAnne Yates -- Standard-setting, certifying and benchmarking: a governmentality approach to sustainability standards in the agro-food sector / Marcel Djama, Eve Fouilleux, Isabelle Vagneron -- Multi-stakeholder Initiatives for sustainable agriculture: limits of the 'inclusiveness' paradigm / Emmanuelle Cheyns -- Competition, 'best practices' and exclusion in the market for social and environmental standards / Stefano Ponte, Lone Riisgaard -- The local instrumentality of global standards: how Mexican indigenous communities use FSC certification to foster a furniture production network / Dan Klooster -- Conclusion: the current status, limits and future of 'governing through standards' / Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon, Jakob Vestergaard.

ISBN

• 9780230295407
• 0230295401

LCCN

^^2011021117

OCLC

724657178

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library