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Unequal access to justice: an evaluation of RSPO’s capacity to resolve palm oil conflicts in Indonesia
In 2009 the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) established a conflict resolution mechanism to help rural communities address their grievances...
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Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector
In response to stakeholder pressure, companies increasingly make ambitious forward-looking sustainability commitments. They then draw on corporate...
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Dissent in Consensusland: An Agonistic Problematization of Multi-stakeholder Governance
Multi-stakeholder initiatives involve actors from several spheres of society (market, civil society and state) in collaborative arrangements to reach...
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Responsible Business Conduct in Commodity Trading—A Multidisciplinary Review
Responsible business conduct (RBC)—the corporate activities and initiatives that proactively address corporate involvement in human rights,...
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A Decision Theory Perspective on Wicked Problems, SDGs and Stakeholders: The Case of Deforestation
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an opportunity to address major social and environmental challenges. As a widely agreed framework they...
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Southern sustainability initiatives in agricultural value chains: a question of enhanced inclusiveness? The case of Trustea in India
Recent studies have shed light on the emergence of Southern sustainability initiatives in commodity-based value chains. These initiatives position...
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Governance for global stewardship: can private certification move beyond commodification in fostering sustainability transformations?
Stewardship—the caring for fellow human beings as well as the nonhuman world—is receiving increasing attention from scholars in the field of global...
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The Political Ontology of Corporate Social Responsibility: Obscuring the Pluriverse in Place
This article examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of political ontology. We contend that CSR is not only a discursive mean...
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Sustainable palm oil as a public responsibility? On the governance capacity of Indonesian Standard for Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO)
This paper is motivated by the observation that Southern governments start to take responsibility for a more sustainable production of agricultural...
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Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
Despite the burgeoning literature on the governance and impact of cross-sector partnerships in the past two decades, the debate on how and when these...
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Deliberating Our Frames: How Members of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Use Shared Frames to Tackle Within-Frame Conflicts Over Sustainability Issues
Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have been praised as vehicles for tackling complex sustainability issues, but their success relies on the...
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The Struggle for Legitimacy in Business and Human Rights Regulation—a Consideration of the Processes Leading to the UN Guiding Principles and an International Treaty
After the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were adopted in 2011, an international treaty has been being negotiated since...
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‘The right thing to do’: ethical motives in the interpretation of social sustainability in the UK’s conventional food supply
This paper explores the role of ethics and responsibility as drivers of a transition to a more sustainable agri-food system, by drawing on an...
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Multi-stakeholder initiative governance as assemblage: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as a political resource in land conflicts related to oil palm plantations
Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSI) claim to make production of commodities more socially and environmentally sustainable by regulating their members...
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Marking the success or end of global multi-stakeholder governance? The rise of national sustainability standards in Indonesia and Brazil for palm oil and soy
The RSPO and RTRS are global private partnerships that have been set up by business and civil society actors from the North to curb de-forestation...
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Responsible Innovation and the Innovation of Responsibility: Governing Sustainable Development in a Globalized World
Earth’s life-support system is facing megaproblems of sustainability. One important way of how these problems can be addressed is through innovation....
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Cross-Sector Partnerships and the Co-creation of Dynamic Capabilities for Stakeholder Orientation
This paper explores the relationship between business experience in cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) and the co-creation of what we refer to as...
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Biofuels: Sustainable Innovation or Gold Rush? Identifying Responsibilities for Biofuel Innovations
Based on fieldwork and literature review we have investigated the rise and fall of jatropha cultivation in Tanzania over the last decade, and its...
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Making “minority voices” heard in transnational roundtables: the role of local NGOs in reintroducing justice and attachments
Since the beginning of the new millennium, initiatives known as roundtables have been developed to create voluntary sustainability standards for...