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Perceptions of Legitimacy and Efficacy in International Environmental Management Standards: The Impact of the Participation Gap

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What is the impact on perceptions of legitimacy and efficacy when key stake-holders are absent during the creation of international standards? Can these international standards setting bodies adequately address the needs of all countries when often working in the absence of developing countries? This study examines the process through which one international environmental management standard (ISO 14001) was created and analyzes its perceived legitimacy and efficacy among developing country stakeholders relative to those from developed countries. Data for this project come from interviews with 42 delegates to the ISO 14000 standards-drafting sessions in Malaysia and 133 surveys of ISO 14001 certified firms in 16 countries. The article concludes that stakeholder absence impacts both legitimacy and efficacy of ISO 14001 in interesting and unexpected ways. Copyright (c) 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Susan Summers Raines, 2003. "Perceptions of Legitimacy and Efficacy in International Environmental Management Standards: The Impact of the Participation Gap," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 3(3), pages 47-73, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:3:y:2003:i:3:p:47-73
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    1. Amandine Bled, 2009. "Business to the rescue: private sector actors and global environmental regimes’ legitimacy," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 9(2), pages 153-171, May.
    2. Iñaki HERAS‐SAIZARBITORIA & Olivier BOIRAL & Ander IBARLOZA, 2020. "ISO 45001 and controversial transnational private regulation for occupational health and safety," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 159(3), pages 397-421, September.
    3. Steven Bernstein & Benjamin Cashore, 2007. "Can non‐state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 1(4), pages 347-371, December.

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