Standardising Social Responsibility: Analysing ISO Representation Issues from an SME Perspective
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The legitimacy of formal international standards foremost rests on the inclusiveness of the standards process. Therefore, the overall absence and lack of influence of ‘political minority’ stakeholders such as smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and consumers pose a problem. In this paper, we use political theory to analyse issues of minority representation in standardisation. We focus on the difficulties that SMEs face in the standards committee for Social Responsibility (ISO 26000), a committee that works under unusually inclusive conditions. The study highlights a number of sources of friction that go beyond the case and are systemic to formal standardisation. In particular, standardization processes combine different types of democracy (direct and representative) and thereby undermine the influence of minorities. Furthermore, the significance of the difference between ‘standing for’ and ‘acting for’ a minority must be recognized if representative democracy in international standardisation is to be strengthened.
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