Little consensus exists about the effectiveness of transnational private governance in domains such as labor, the environment, or human rights. The paper builds on recent scholarship on labor standards to emphasize the role of labor agency in transnational private governance. It argues that the...

To understand and explain if the Global Compact initiatives really attract enterprises and how they could achieve the aims of making the enterprises self-regulatory, we must examine the motivations of the participants and determine if they changed their behaviors after joining the initiative....