Browsing by Author "Grabs, Janina"
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A theory of credible cross-temporal corporate commitments as goal-based private sustainability governance
Grabs, Janina (Business Strategy and the Environment, 2023)Goal-based corporate supply chain commitments to zero-deforestation, carbon neutrality, or sustainable sourcing have become important elements of businesses' sustainability and reputation management ... -
Business accountability in the Anthropocene
Grabs, Janina (Environmental Policy and Governance, 2023)The arrival of the Anthropocene requires a profound rethinking of business accountability. A central challenge in this age is the possibility of pushing past planetary boundaries, which may irreversibly ... -
Effectiveness-equity tradeoffs in enforcing exclusionary supply chain policies: Lessons from the Amazonian cattle sector
Cammelli, Federico; Levy, Samuel A.; Grabs, Janina; Valentim, Judson; Parida, Vinit (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022)To address ongoing deforestation for global food commodities production, companies and governments have adopted a range of forest-focused supply chain policies. In the Brazilian Amazon, these policies ... -
Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges
Marx, Axel; Depoorter, Charline; Fernandez de Cordoba, Santiago; Verma, Rupal; Araoz, Mercedes; Auld, Graeme; Bemelmans, Janne; Bennett, Elizabeth; Boonaert, Eva; Brandi, Clara; Dietz, Thomas; Fouilleux, Eve; Grabs, Janina; Gulbrandsen, Lars H.; Harrison, James; Heilmayr, Robert; Hernandez, Ariel; Hoekman, Bernard; Rubiah Lambert, Siti; Lambin, Eric; Li, Li; Maertens, Miet; Mortara Batistic, Paulo; Michida, Etsuyo; Nakagawa, Junji; Negi, Archna; Pérez-Pineda, Jorge Antonio; Ponte, Stefano; Rueda, Ximena; Schleifer, Philip; Thorstensen, Vera Helena; van der Ven, Hamish (Global Policy, 2024)Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are transnational governance instruments that can be leveraged to pursue sustainable development in global value chains. They have proliferated since the 1990s ... -
Goal-Based Private Sustainability Governance and Its Paradoxes in the Indonesian Palm Oil Sector
Parida, Vinit; Grabs, Janina (Journal of Business Ethics, 2023)In response to stakeholder pressure, companies increasingly make ambitious forward-looking sustainability commitments. They then draw on corporate policies with varying degrees of alignment to disseminate ... -
How can sustainable business models distribute value more equitably in global value chains? Introducing “value chain profit sharing” as an emerging alternative to fair trade, direct trade, or solidarity trade
Bennett, Elizabeth; Grabs, Janina (Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility, 2024)Global supply chains often distribute value inequitably among the Global North and South. This perpetuates poverty and contributes to indecent work in raw material-producing countries, thus creating ... -
How well does the implementation of corporate zero-deforestation commitments in Indonesia align with aims to halt deforestation and include smallholders?
Chandra, Adelina; Trullen, Jordi; Carlson, Kimberly; Heilmayr, Robert; Stigler, Matthieu; Benedict, Jason; Grabs, Janina (Environmental Research Letters, 2024)In response to growing scrutiny surrounding commodity-driven deforestation, companies have introduced zero-deforestation commitments (ZDCs) with ambitious environmental and social targets. However, such ... -
Jurisdictional approaches to sustainable agro-commodity governance: The state of knowledge and future research directions
Macdonald, Kate; Diprose, Rachael; Grabs, Janina; Schleifer, Philip; Alger, Justin; Baharuddin, Tawakkal; Brandão, Joyce; Cashore, Benjamin; Chandra, Adelina; Cisneros, Paul; Delgado Pugley, Deborah; Trullen, Jordi; hopkinson, william (Earth System Governance, 2024) -
Ratcheting up private standards by exploiting coopetition: The curious case of RSPO’s adoption of zero-deforestation criteria
Grabs, Janina; Jespersen, Kristjan ; Gallemore, Caleb (Ecological Economics, 2024)At its November 2018 annual meeting, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) approved a new version of its foundational rules that advocates argued made it a zero-deforestation standard. Using a ... -
Should payments for environmental services be used to implement zero-deforestation supply chain policies? The case of soy in the Brazilian Cerrado
Grabs, Janina; Garrett, Rachael; Cammelli, Federico; Gollnow, Florian; Levy, Samuel A. (World Development, 2022)Over the past decade public and private actors have been developing a variety of new policy approaches for addressing agriculturally-driven deforestation linked to international supply chains. While ... -
Smallholder participation in zero-deforestation supply chain initiatives in the Indonesian palm oil sector: Challenges, opportunities, and limitations
Eggen, Michael; Heilmayr, Robert; Anderson, Patrick; Armson, Rebecca; Austin, Kemen; Azmi, Reza; Bayliss, Peter; Burns, David; Erbaugh, James; Ekaputri, Andini; Gaveau, David; Grabs, Janina; Greenbury, Aida; Gulagnar, Ibrahim; Alsy Hanu, Mansuetus; Hill, Tony; Leegwater, Marieke; Limberg, Godwin; Opal, Charlotte; Putri, Violace; Rodrigues, Judy; Rosoman, Grant; Satar, Musnanda; Sheun, Su Sin; Rafik, Rukaiyah; Walen, Sarah; Carlson, Kimberly (Elementa, 2024)As actors in tropical agricultural commodity supply chains implement commitments to end deforestation, they risk exacerbating social inequities by excluding smallholder farmers, who are important producers ...