Transnational Business Governance and the Management of Natural Resources

25 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2012

Date Written: September 7, 2012

Abstract

In the last two decades, the international community has intervened indirectly to reduce the conflict and corruption that accompany natural resource development in weakly governed states. These efforts converge on the norm of information disclosure by industry as a regulatory mechanism, but diverge in how this is institutionalized in a number of different transnational business governance initiative. This article examines how the successive failures of public and private efforts led to patterns of convergence and divergence in the transnational governance of the extractive sector. The timing of the effort, combined with variation in industry structure, differences in the targets of information disclosure, and learning over time influence the outcome in each case. This is explored through a comparison of the Kimberley Process, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the Dodd‐Frank reforms in the US, and recently adopted due‐diligence standards by the OECD, the US, and by industry.

Keywords: natural resources, extractive sector, global governance, transparency, certification, regulation, Kimberley Process, EITI, due diligence

JEL Classification: L21, M14, N40

Suggested Citation

Haufler, Virginia, Transnational Business Governance and the Management of Natural Resources (September 7, 2012). Osgoode CLPE Research Paper No. 18/2012, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2143388 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2143388

Virginia Haufler (Contact Author)

University of Maryland ( email )

College Park, MD 20742
United States

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