7th Annual Environmental Law & Institutions Colloquium

Certification Institutions and Private Governance
New Dynamics in the Protection of Workers and the Environment

December 7-8, 2001

Colloquium Participant Papers
*Colloquium participants have provided links to various related papers.

Conroy, Michael E. September 2001. "Can Advocacy-Led Certification Systems Transform Global Corporate Practices? Evidence, and Some Theory." A paper written for the Natural Assets Project of the Program on Development, Peacebuilding, and the Environment at Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst. PERI Working Paper No. DPE-01-07

Ronie Garcia-Johnson, Gary Gereffi, Erika Sasser. October 2000."Certification Institution Emergence: Explaining Variation."
[PDF:explaining_variation.pdf] [Word:explaining_variation.doc]

Garcia-Johnson, Ronie. November 2001. Certification Institutions in the Protection of the Environment: Exploring the Implications for Governance. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy, Analysis & Management, November 1, 2001, Washington, DC.
[PDF:rgjappamnov.pdf] [Word:rgjappamnov.doc]

Garcia-Johnson, Ronie. February 2001. Beyond Corporate Culture: Reputation, Rules, and the Function of Certification Institutions. Working Paper #1: Duke Project on Social and Environmental Certification. [PDF:BeyondCorpCult.pdf] [Word:BeyondCorpCult.doc]

Garcia-Johnson, Ronie. February 2001. Multinational Corporations and Global Trade Associations: Moving First to Shape a Green Global Production Context. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL. [PDF:rgj_isa_mncs.pdf] [Word:rgj.isa.mncs.doc]

R. Garcia-Johnson, G. Gereffi, E. Sasser. July/August 2001. The NGO-Industrial Complex. Foreign Policy. Available at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_2001/gereffi.html

Ruggie, John G. "The Theory and Practice of Learning Networks:Corporate Social Responsibility and the Global Compact." [PDF:j_corporate_citizenship.pdf] [Word:j_corporate_citizenship.doc]

Sasser, Erika N. March 2001. "Gaining Leverage: NGO Influence on Certification Institutions in the Forest Products Sector." Paper presented at the Forest Policy Center's Global Initiatives and Public Policies: First International Conference on Private Forestry in the 21st Century, Atlanta, Georgia, March 26, 2001. [PDF:gaining_leverage.pdf] [Word:gaining_leverage.doc]