The paper examines how a domestic institutional environment and third-party compliance assessment shape the effects and effectiveness of certification and labeling. Certification represents a form of transnational non-state market-driven governance of the environmental and social performance of...

This paper uses a game theoretic model to investigate the 1993-94 split-up of the main German pharmaceutical association into an association for multinational, researchbased companies and an association representing small and medium-sized firms. In order to explain the breakdown of cooperation...

Whilst most studies on the transformation of industrial relations (IR) in Eastern Europe focus on the common trends, this paper examines variations in IR practices at company level. It uses a revised version of the exchange model to analyse the evidence from nineteen case studies in Romania. As...