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From Compliance to Rulemaking: How Global Corporate Norms Emerge from Interplay with States and Stakeholders

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Olaf Dilling

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Many industrial practices, such as the organization of working conditions or the use of hazardous substances, are no longer endemic to a specific jurisdiction. Rather, they spread through cross-border production chains or global markets for consumer products. In many cases, such regulatory issues therefore cannot be resolved within a single territory. Instead, they require the involvement of global players, such as civil society, business actors or international organizations, who can often find pragmatic solutions to global problems, even if they lack the formal authority to do so. This seems to conform to a more global trend of national government getting replaced by global governance.

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German Law Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 5: The Ruptures in International Law , May 2012 , pp. 381 - 418
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