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Self-enforcing Global Private Governance
National governments increasingly employ private governance—firm-level self-regulation structures—to shape global business operations. For companies, private governance entails material and organizational costs that constrain business activities. ...
Project · 2d
Cooperative Control: How the US Introduced Private Governance in Economic Sanction Enforcement
Multinational corporations are key to effective economic sanctions, yet aligning them with sanction objectives remains challenging due to conflicting market and political incentives. Starting in 2016, the US government began to shift from a coerci...
Project · 2d
Outsourcing Oversight: State-directed Private Governance Improves Business Sanctions Compliance in Cross-border M&As
Governments increasingly encourage private companies to self-regulate and voluntarily avoid risky businesses to comply with economic sanctions. Does state-led private governance work, and if so, how? Drawing on elite interviews and industry analys...
Project · 2d