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Governing through standards : origins, drivers and limitations / edited by Stefano Ponte, Peter Gibbon, Jakob Vestergaard

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Ponte, Stefano, Gibbon, Peter, and Vestergaard, Jakob

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Governing through Standards: An Introduction / Jakob Vestergaard -- 2.The Rise of Banking Standards and Their Limits / Kevin L. Young -- 3.The New Standard in Banking Regulation: From Basel II to Basel III / Martin Højland -- 4.Reforming Global Banking Standards: Back to the Future? / Ranjit Lall -- 5.Moving Beyond Nuts and Bolts: The Complexities of Governing a Global Profession through International Standards / Anne Loft -- 6.On the Pre-history of ISO 9000: The Making of a Neo-liberal Standard / Lasse Folke Henriksen -- 7.ISO 26000, Alternative Standards, and the `Social Movement of Engineers' Involved with Standard Setting / JoAnne Yates -- 8.Standard-Setting, Certifying and Benchmarking: A Governmentality Approach to Sustainability Standards in the Agro-Food Sector / Isabelle Vagneron -- 9.Multi-stakeholder Initiatives for Sustainable Agriculture: Limits of the `Inclusiveness' Paradigm / Emmanuelle Cheyns -- 10.Competition, `Best Practices' and Exclusion in the Market for Social and Environmental Standards / Lone Riisgaard -- 11.The Local Instrumentality of Global Standards: How Mexican Indigenous Communities Use FSC Certification to Foster a Furniture Production Network / Dan Klooster -- 12.Conclusion: The Current Status, Limits and Future of `Governing through Standards' / Jakob Vestergaard.
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ISBN
9780230295407
0230295401
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Includes index.
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