@inbook{025f1b6a257f43ae8b260e5ec49c6807,
title = "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! A case study of ISO 26000 on social responsibility",
abstract = "In an era of increased reliance on private regulatory bodies and globalised economic activity, standardisation is the field where politics, technical expertise and strategic behaviour meet and interact. International standard-setting bodies exemplify the rise of transnational governance and the challenges that it brings about relating to institutional choice, legitimacy, procedural and substantive fairness or transparency. This book takes a more empirical-based approach focusing on the mechanics of international standard-setting. It constitutes a multidisciplinary inquiry into the foundations of international standard-setting, an empirically under-researched yet important area of international informal lawmaking. Contributors expertly examine the peculiarities of international standardisation in selected issue-areas and legal orders and shed light on the attributes of international standard-setters, allowing comparisons among standard-setting bodies with a view to identifying best practices and improve our understanding about standardisation processes.",
author = "Stephanie Bijlmakers and {Van Calster}, Geert",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1017/cbo9781316423240.013",
language = "English",
series = "International Trade and Economic Law",
pages = "275--310",
booktitle = "The Law, Economics and Politics of International Standardisation",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}