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What is Scandinavia - Culturally?

-Protestant/secular


-Rationalist


-Liberal


-Historically homogenous

What is Scandinavia - Politically?

-Social Democratic


-Welfarist


-Consensual (govt, labour, business)

What is Scandinavia - Economically?

-High GDP, high income


- Strong manufacturing


- well-regulated


- Stakeholder model well-established

Scandinavian Model Compared?

Regarded as an "exemplar" in sustainability and CSR

Hard Law

Binding -- Needs state assistance


Soft Law

"Self-regulation"


-- Most rules right now are soft law


non-binding.


i.e guidelines


Exception: Codes of conduct are soft law, but binding.


-- Could turn into hard law

Gjolberg - Hard/Soft differences

Hard law = "regime relying on authority and power of state"


Soft law = "regime that relies on participation and resources of non-state actors"

Scandinavia



Nordics

Scandinavia = Sweden, Norway, Denmark +Finland?



Nordics = Iceland + Faroe Islands, + Greenland

Scandinavian Exceptionalism?


(Institutional Factors and Explanations)

Is it??? Who knows.



Gjolberg:


- Gov't plays a main part in framing scandinavian CSR


1) Social welfare states


2) Cultural factors


-participatory govt + stakeholder orientation

What is the main US form of CSR?

Philanthropy -- to fill governmental gaps.


(explicit)

What are main points of European CSR?

(implicit)
Engaging with unions, looking beyond home state to their supply chain.
They have more resources b/c govt helps.


Danish Action Plans

4 areas. Talked about "shared value"
CSR reporting - 2008 only large companies at first, discretion on reporting topics. But in 2012, MANDATORY for Human Rights and Climate reporting (hard)



-- focuses on Global Compact

Norway: Action Plan

Externally oriented -- outside Norway, esp. extractives sector.



-- OECD Guidelines oriented (=international soft law recommendations from govts to MNCs, AND enforcement via National Contact Points.)



Strongly influenced by public policy objectives

Sweden (Action Plan)

SOE-Oriented

Reporting-oriented (GRI)


Finland (Action Plan)

EU 'Lisbon Goals'


External: 'responsible competitiveness'


Danish Action Plan - CSV approach

(Porter and Kramer)


"benefit of business"; marketing for Denmark



Is this so? Policy Objectives: Governments want Danish business to fill the "governance gaps" to reach policy objectives outside country, + to have more Danish firms in Global Compact

Challenging the business oriented CSV approach
"reflexive law"


--> regulated self-regulation



Was Danish authority so CSV oriented? (Gjolberg) - or did other authorities have a strong hand?

Gond, Kang & Moon (2011)

look at this please