On May 12, 1998, Nike's CEO and founder Mr. Phillip Knight spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and made what were, in his words, "some fairly significant announcements" regarding Nike's policies on working conditions in its supplier factories. The announcements received favorable...

This article analyses the capacity of global non-state networks of civil society actors to effectively supplement weak state regulation in reducing human rights abuse by multi-national companies (MNCs). The effectiveness of NGOs used as part of a network of control finds support both in the...

The Hayne Royal Commission has reinvigorated debate regarding shareholder primacy in Australia. However, this debate has not always been informed by a shared understanding of what this theoretical approach entails. We compare recent Australian papers on this topic with key papers by seven...

Antenarrative research and writing techniques challenge scholars to look beyond pre-existing expectations as to which actors and processes are likely to be most influential and to resist limiting their narratives to relatively ordered and predictable plot sequences. Instead antenarrative draws...

This report considers 12 international sports brands — adidas, ASICS, FILA, Kappa, Lotto, Mizuno, New Balance, Nike, Puma, Reebok, Speedo and Umbro — and examines the steps they take to ensure their suppliers in Asia allow workers to organise trade unions and bargain collectively for better...

This book chapter considers the potential of corporate labour practice codes of conduct and their associated processes for monitoring and enforcement to advance the protection of trade union rights, taking as a case study the three codes which most strongly intersect with the debate on Nike...

Discourses shape perspectives and behaviours both within and beyond communities. A number of community development researchers have drawn attention to the growing influence of neo-liberal discourse over the way much community development is understood and practised. This article analyses one...

The slow pace of global progress in improving gender balance on corporate boards cannot be attributed to a lack of policy initiatives: a considerable variety of legal, regulatory and voluntary efforts have been implemented across multiple jurisdictions. However, the lack of an agreed means of...

This thesis contributes to debates regarding the future of organized labor, the ability of global civil society networks to influence the practices of powerful institutions, and the value of non-state forms of corporate regulation. It focuses on the anti-sweatshop movement’s campaigns...