During the last ten years, there has been a continuous growth in the number of international framework agreements (IFAs) that have been concluded. But how can the heterogeneous nature of their contents be explained? In the absence of any legal framework, some agreements define only general...

Managing ‘responsible’ buying is now a popular subject in multinational company management. This type of managing is part of a continuum between cosmetic and a real modification in organization. The academic literature has studied how the companies incorporate CSR criteria into their...