Date Issued
2019
Description
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 build, maintain and repair their legitimacy. Crucially however, early institutionalisation confers power upon particular actors, crystallises an organisation’s identify and lays the foundations for the achievement of its goals. Consequently, the enduring nature of early this institutionalisation can temper the potential for governance interactions to advance democracy, justice and fairness within non-state regulatory organisations.
Subject
Food Regulation, legitimacy, transnational regulation, private regulation, GLOBALGAP
Disciplines
Business Organizations Law | Food and Drug Law | Transnational Law
Document Type
Working Paper
Recommended Citation
Casey, Donal, "Interactions, Iteration and Early Institutionalization: Competing Lessons of GLOBALGAP’s Legitimation" (2019). Transnational Business Governance Interactions Working Papers. 26.
https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/tbgi/26
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