Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60257 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on International Political Economy (PIPE) No. 3/2010
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Center for International Political Economy, Berlin
Abstract: 
What motivates companies to invest in corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Analysing CSR in the global sportswear industry, this paper advances the hypothesis that the campaigning activities of human rights activists pushed industry leaders Nike and adidas to incorporate labour norms in their business (sourcing) practices. Drawing on the spiral model of human rights norm internalization, the paper's findings suggest that the efforts of leading sportswear companies to address poor labour standards in their supply chains can no longer be explained by mere strategic behaviour induced by external pressure, but are increasingly the result of norm guided behaviour. In the case of adidas and to a lesser extent with regard to Nike evidence points to a prescriptive status in which the dominant mode of action shifts from the logic of consequences to the logic of appropriateness.
Subjects: 
private governance
private actors
transnational companies
norms
CSR
labour standards
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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