Monitoring Multinationals: Lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Era  

Oleh:

Seidman, Gay W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Politics & Society vol. 31 no. 3 (Sep. 2003), page 381-406.
Topik: labor; transnational activism; Sullivan Principles; South Africa; antiapartheid movement
Fulltext: 381PS313.pdf (134.11KB)

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This article examines the construction and implementation of the Sullivan Principles, a two-decade effort to use corporate codes of conduct to improve the behavior of multinational corporations in South Africa under apartheid. Without organized social movement pressure, corporations would not have agreed to adopt the code, and corporate compliance required sustained pressure from the anti-apartheid movement. The system’s independent monitoring process was problematic, and managers’ definitions of “good corporate citizenship” were more guided bymonitors’emphases than bysubstantive concerns. Based on the historic case, the article raises questions about the voluntaristic, stateless character of transnational corporate codes of conduct and questions whether such codes offer a viable strategyfor improving working conditions.

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