A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Hamish van der Ven
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Abstract

Practices of stakeholder engagement vary widely across voluntary sustainability standard setters. This study examines how the sponsorship structure of standard setters affects the diversity of stakeholders included in consultations and the influence of stakeholder input on standards. I compare six sustainability standard setters through an original dataset of 7945 stakeholder comments submitted during public comment periods between 2012 and 2019 to answer two research questions. First, are some standard setters better at balancing stakeholder representation than others? And second, does stakeholder influence vary across standard setters? I find that industry-sponsored standards tend to attract more industry input than multistakeholder initiatives, but both tend to over-represent legacy stakeholders. I also find that sponsorship is a poor predictor of which comments will be influential. Comments that seek to weaken or clarify the rules in voluntary sustainability standards are more likely to exert influence irrespective of the sponsorship of the standard setter.
自愿可持续性标准中利益相关者参与实践的比较
各自愿性可持续发展标准制定机构的利益相关者参与实践差异很大。本研究考察了标准制定者的赞助结构如何影响磋商中利益相关者的多样性,以及利益相关者对标准投入的影响。我通过在2012年至2019年的公众评论期间提交的7945份利益相关者意见的原始数据集,比较了六个可持续发展标准制定者,以回答两个研究问题。首先,一些标准制定者是否比其他标准制定者更善于平衡利益相关者的代表?第二,利益相关者的影响在标准制定者之间是否有所不同?我发现,行业赞助的标准往往比多涉众计划吸引更多的行业投入,但两者都倾向于过度代表遗留涉众。我还发现,赞助并不能很好地预测哪些评论将具有影响力。试图削弱或澄清自愿可持续性标准中的规则的评论更有可能产生影响,而不管标准制定者是否支持。
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期刊介绍: Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.
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