`In this book, Tamm Hallstroem and Bostroem provide us with useful
tools to make sense of the proliferation of new rules and standards
established by multi-stakeholder initiatives. Focusing on cases of
the International Organization for Standardization, the Forest
Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council, they
examine struggles in the development of legitimate authority for
these standards. Their critical analysis highlights the obstacles
and problems these initiatives face and seeks to correct what they
see as overly optimistic assessments of these developments in the
current literature.' - Jennifer Clapp, University of Waterloo,
Canada `This book contributes to the lively contemporary
exploration of transnational governance in the making. It brings a
welcome focus on practices, strategies and conflicts in complex
multi-stakeholder processes of standardization. As such, it answers
current calls, in the literature, to take the question of power
seriously - power struggles in the process of governance making but
also power and authority as a result of that process. The question
of power and authority in the context of transnational governance
in the making is, undoubtedly, our collective new frontier. The
type of well-crafted and theoretically informed comparative study
proposed by Kristina Tamm Hallstroem and Magnus Bostroem is just
what we need today to move forward on this frontier.' - Marie Laure
Djelic, ESSEC Business School, France This enriching book provides
a novel analysis of the organizational processes behind the
establishment, maintenance, and challenges of non-state authority.
In doing so, it compares three transnational, multi-stakeholder
standard-setting processes: those of the Forest Stewardship
Council, the Marine Stewardship Council, and the International
Organization for Standardization on the subject of social
responsibility (ISO 26000). The authors theorize the fragility of
authority defined as legitimate power. They examine the problematic
nature of the long-term transnational multi-stakeholder work upon
which this authority is based, including the risks of being ruled
out by competing rule setters or being split apart by the
centrifugal forces inherent in the multi-stakeholder logics.
Scholars of organization studies, sociology, political science, and
related disciplines will find this eloquent book of great
importance to their field. Practitioners, including standardization
experts, managers, management consultants, movement intellectuals,
as well as policymakers, should not be without this important book.
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