The problematization and regulation of responsibility in transnational supply chains: public discourse, private governance and state intervention in Germany and Switzerland

跨国供应链中责任的问题化和监管：德国和瑞士的公共话语、私人治理和国家干预

• 批准号: 513241192
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Boris Holzer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für BR, Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht sowie Rechtsvergleichung
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/513241192?language=en
• 关键词: problematization; regulation; responsibility; transnational; supply

With a focus on Germany and Switzerland, the research project aims to investigate how questions of corporate social responsibility in transnational supply chains are publicly discussed, politically answered and legally decided in the form of concrete regulatory projects. Multinational companies exploit inequalities in wages as well as in labour and environmental standards along global supply chains and production networks to gain comparative cost advantages. Despite international conventions, there are hardly any globally binding standards. In the context of public problematisation of grievances and accidents, there is an increasing discussion as to the extent to which transnational supply chains should be regulated by national laws in the countries of origin of multinational companies. In recent years, concrete legislative initiatives to regulate transnational supply chains have been discussed or have already been politically decided in numerous countries, namely in Germany and Switzerland. This means that the legal responsibility dimension, which had initially received only limited attention in scholarship on corporate social responsibility, is thus gaining in importance.Against this backdrop, we investigate how public problem articulation and institutional problem management intertwine and how problematisation and negotiation processes in the political public sphere, in policy processes and in court contribute to a (normative) regulatory framework for transnational value chains. For this purpose, the argumentative positioning in public discourses will be reconstructed and related to the development in politics and law in Germany and Switzerland. The research project thus combines sociological, political and legal perspectives, approaches and methods in a cross-national comparative research design. The empirical investigation is based on a comparison of the regulation of transnational supply chains in Germany and Switzerland in the context of European and international law. In a further step, a discourse network analysis of actors and arguments in the debate on transnational supply chains in both countries is conducted. This will shed light on the changing issues, attributions of responsibility and actor constellations in the political public sphere. Finally, this will be complemented by the legal perspective, in which on the one hand a case law analysis and on the other hand a dogmatic and comparative law analysis of the liability conditions of multinational corporations will be conducted. The combination of the different theoretical and methodological approaches opens up the possibility of examining the problematisation and regulation of responsibility in transnational supply chains and thereby gaining new insights into the interplay of discursive and legal dimensions of corporate responsibility.

该研究项目以德国和瑞士为重点，旨在调查跨国供应链中的企业社会责任问题如何以具体监管项目的形式得到公开讨论、政治上的回答和法律上的决定。跨国公司利用沿着全球供应链和生产网络的工资以及劳工和环境标准的不平等，以获得相对成本优势。尽管有国际公约，但几乎没有任何具有全球约束力的标准。在公众对冤情和事故的问题化背景下，越来越多的人讨论跨国供应链应在多大程度上受到跨国公司原籍国国家法律的监管。近年来，许多国家，即德国和瑞士，讨论或已经在政治上决定了管制跨国供应链的具体立法举措。这意味着，在企业社会责任研究中，最初只受到有限关注的法律的责任维度，正变得越来越重要。在此背景下，我们探讨公共问题表达与制度问题管理如何相互影响，以及政治公共领域中的问题化和协商过程，在政策进程和法庭上，为跨国价值链的（规范）监管框架作出贡献。为此，我们将重构论辩在公共语篇中的定位，并将其与德国和瑞士的政治和法律发展联系起来。因此，该研究项目结合了社会学，政治和法律的观点，方法和方法，在跨国比较研究设计。实证调查的基础上，在欧洲和国际法的背景下，在德国和瑞士的跨国供应链的监管比较。在进一步的步骤中，话语网络分析的演员和论点在这两个国家的跨国供应链的辩论进行。这将有助于了解政治公共领域中不断变化的问题、责任归属和行为体组合。最后，将从法律的角度对此加以补充，一方面对跨国公司的赔偿责任条件进行判例法分析，另一方面进行教条式的比较法分析。不同的理论和方法的方法相结合，开辟了审查的问题化和跨国供应链中的责任监管的可能性，从而获得新的见解的话语和法律的方面的相互作用的公司责任。