Sustainability Standards and Stakeholder Engagement: Lessons From Carbon Markets
研究了碳市场中标准制定过程的利益相关方参与如何影响参与者的数量、身份和资历，以及最终标准的多样性和质量，对关注可持续性标准制定的学者和实践者有参考价值。
Stakeholders play an increasingly active role in private governance, including development of standards for measuring sustainability. Building on prior studies focused on standards and stakeholder engagement, we use an innovation management theoretical lens to compare stakeholder engagement and standards developed in two carbon markets: the Climate Action Reserve and the U.N.’s Clean Development Mechanism. We develop and test hypotheses regarding how different processes of stakeholder engagement in standard development affect the number, identity, and age of stakeholders involved, as well as the variation and quality of the resulting standards. In doing so, we contribute to the growing literature on stakeholder engagement in developing sustainability standards.