The inherent complexity of grand challenges such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals requires cooperation of a multiplicity of actors at the transnational level, including NGOs, MNCs, Nation States, the UN, World Bank and other transnational institutions. They gather relevant stakeholders around a table, increasingly private actors who have expertise in the particular issue, to then propose efficient solutions, mostly in the form of standards and codes of conduct. Mobilizing a parentalism lens this research theorizes different strategies that business uses in the context of private governance to legitimate its power in modern business-stakeholder relations.
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10551-018-3928-9
