Firme-réseau globale et réseaux transnationaux d’ONG : Vers un nouveau mode de régulation ?

• Main Author: Florence Palpacuer
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Recherche & Régulation 2008-01-01
• Series: Revue de la Régulation
• Subjects: global corporation; network; NGO; clothing
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/regulation/2243

Global network firm and GLOBAL NGO networks: towards a new mode of regulation? The paper draws on the case study of an activist campaign against the German brand PUMA regarding work conditions at a subcontracting factory in Mexico, to develop an analysis of the strategic and organizational transformations underlying relationships between firms and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It is argued that strategic and organizational changes in transnational NGO networks share core characteristics with the global production networks developed by large corporations. The concept of a mode of regulation is used to put such changes in the broader perspective of stabilizing social conditions in the global economy.