Multi-stakeholder Initiatives and Legitimacy: A Deliberative Systems Perspective

IF 3.4 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS
Kristin Apffelstaedt, Stephanie Schrage, Dirk Ulrich Gilbert
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The legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) as institutions for social and environmental governance in the global economy has received much scholarly attention over the past years. To date, however, research has yet to focus on assessing the legitimacy of MSIs in their interactions with other actors within larger systems of deliberation. Drawing on the deliberative systems perspective developed within deliberative democracy theory, we theorise a normative framework to evaluate the roles of MSIs within the broader systems of governance they co-construct through their interactions with other initiatives, governments, non-governmental organisations, and other external actors. As we demonstrate in our evaluation of the illustrative case of the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety as a MSI in the context of the Bangladeshi garment industry, this framework can help researchers assess whether a MSI ultimately serves to enhance or undermine the deliberative legitimacy of the overall system of which it forms a part.
多利益相关者倡议与合法性:一个审议制度的视角
过去几年,多方利益相关者倡议(msi)作为全球经济中社会和环境治理机构的合法性受到了学术界的广泛关注。然而,到目前为止,研究还没有集中在评估msi在更大的审议系统中与其他行动者互动的合法性。借鉴协商民主理论中发展起来的协商制度视角,我们理论化了一个规范框架,以评估msi在更广泛的治理体系中的作用,这些体系通过与其他倡议、政府、非政府组织和其他外部参与者的互动共同构建。正如我们在对孟加拉国服装行业背景下的《孟加拉国消防与建筑安全协议》作为MSI的说明案例的评估中所展示的那样,该框架可以帮助研究人员评估MSI最终是增强还是破坏了它所构成的整个系统的审议合法性。
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期刊介绍: Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business. Since 1991 this multidisciplinary journal has published articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market-based societies and market-based relationships. It recognizes that contributions to the better understanding of business ethics can come from any quarter and therefore publishes scholarship rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.
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