Private Ordering and Public Policy: The Paradoxical Foundations of Corporate Contractarianism

PUBLIC INTEREST AND PRIVATE POLICY: THE CASE OF IMPLEMENTING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN DUTCH INDUSTRY Prof.dr

An increasing number of firms with a foothold in the Netherlands try to implement ‘corporate social responsibility’. This article considers these efforts in the light of the changing relation between the state and society. It analyses the processes of learning that were induced by the programme ‘From financial to sustainable profit’ of the Dutch National Initiative for Sustainable Development (...

Public Private Partnership Policy Statement

Private Labels, Price Rivalry, and Public Policy¤

The article examines how the existence of a retailer owned brand, private label, a¤ects the price setting of a national brand. We ...nd that the potential for a private label introduction may lead to price concessions from the national brand producer, but that actual private label introduction as such may very well lead to higher retail prices on national brands. We argue that this may have imp...

Accountability and corporate governance of public private partnerships

Brennan and Solomon (2008) identify six new frontiers in accountability and corporate governance research to stimulate research. This paper contributes to such research by devising a reporting framework and research agenda that relates to Brennan and Solomon’s fourth frontier, sectors and context, focusing on the regulated hybrid organisational forms of Public Private Partnerships, which operat...

The nature of public-private partnership

To explaining the public-private partnership matter, we have to search about the answer of this questions: public-private partnership Is subject of what kind of legal contracts? private law? Administrate law? And what kind of Outstanding feature make it difference from other contracts.in order to finding the answer we Explained the concept of partnership, the definition of governmental contract...