caa a22 4500 605483116 CHVBK 20210128100429.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10551-013-2033-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10551-013-2033-3 The Politics of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: The Crisis of the Forest Stewardship Council [Elektronische Daten] [Sandra Moog, André Spicer, Steffen Böhm] Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) have become a vital part of the organizational landscape for corporate social responsibility. Recent debates have explored whether these initiatives represent opportunities for the "democratization” of transnational corporations, facilitating civic participation in the extension of corporate responsibility, or whether they constitute new arenas for the expansion of corporate influence and the private capture of regulatory power. In this article, we explore the political dynamics of these new governance initiatives by presenting an in-depth case study of an organization often heralded as a model MSI: the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). An effort to address global deforestation in the wake of failed efforts to agree a multilateral convention on forests at the Rio Summit (UNCED) in 1992, the FSC was launched in 1993 as a non-state regulatory experiment: a transnational MSI, administering a global eco-labeling scheme for timber and forest products. We trace the scheme's evolution over the past two decades, showing that while the FSC has successfully facilitated multi-sectoral determination of new standards for forestry, it has nevertheless failed to transform commercial forestry practices or stem the tide of tropical deforestation. Applying a neo-Gramscian analysis to the organizational evolution of the FSC, we examine how broader market forces and resource imbalances between non-governmental and market actors can serve to limit the effectiveness of MSIs in the current neo-liberal environment. This presents dilemmas for NGOs which can lead to their defection, ultimately undermining the organizational legitimacy of MSIs. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 CSR nationallicence Civic regulation nationallicence Deliberative democracy nationallicence Eco-labeling nationallicence Environment nationallicence Forests nationallicence Global governance nationallicence Gramsci nationallicence Multi-stakeholder initiatives nationallicence Non-governmental organizations nationallicence Transnational politics nationallicence Moog Sandra Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UK aut Spicer André Cass Business School, City University London, London, UK aut Böhm Steffen Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UK aut Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 469-493 0167-4544 128:3<469 2015 128 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-2033-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-2033-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moog Sandra Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Spicer André Cass Business School, City University London, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Böhm Steffen Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Springer Netherlands 128/3(2015-05-01), 469-493 0167-4544 128:3<469 2015 128 10551