A new EU Directive represents an important step towards greater corporate accountability: it will require large companies to report on their social, environmental and human rights impacts and the risks their activities pose for third parties. While the circumstances leading to the Directive were...

What are the prospects for the upward harmonization of regulatory standards, and why do governments support or oppose more stringent supranational regulation? To answer these questions, this paper examines an important case of upward regulatory harmonization, the European Union's non-financial...

This paper addresses the national and trans-national networks of Corporate Responsibility across Europe from 1990 until 2007. In different ways, these networks both dis- and re-embed the corporation in European society. This argument and discussion must be situated against the backdrop of my...