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Interactions, Iteration And Early Institutionalization: Competing Lessons Of Globalgap’S Legitimation, Donal Casey
Interactions, Iteration And Early Institutionalization: Competing Lessons Of Globalgap’S Legitimation, Donal Casey
Transnational Business Governance Interactions Working Papers
Since its inception, GLOBALGAP has transformed from an informal grouping of retailers into a highly elaborate regulatory organisation. This chapter critically examines GLOBALGAP’s development. I argue that, through an iterative process of legitimation, actual and anticipated interactions with state, market and civil society actors led GLOBALGAP to develop structures, practices and processes that sought to enhance representation and participation of structurally weaker parties such as smallholders, whilst also addressing concerns relating to the exclusionary effect of its standards. I tease out how, as non-state regulatory organisations emerge and develop, they respond to actual and anticipated governance interactions in order to …