Considering the persistent violation of labour rights, questions arise as to the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the governance of global labour standards. We adopt an industrial relations perspective to compare three broad categories of policy instruments: state-centred...

Ensuring social responsibility is a continued challenge in value creation processes that are globally dispersed among multiple organizations. We use the literature on interorganizational network management to shed new light on the question of how employment relations can be managed more...

Global framework agreements (GFAs) – signed and implemented by labour and management – create arenas for labour relations that are based on the Core Labour Standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO). As such, they are a step towards building a transnational arena for global...