Corporate Social Responsibility between Self-Regulation and Government Intervention: Monitoring, Enforcement and Transparency

The existing rules and standards on corporate social responsibility can best be described as a hybrid legal architecture, where various regulatory approaches maintain a friendly coexistence. This type of multilevel rule-making is sometimes perceived to be complicated and not very effective because it is often said to leave some areas of economic activity unregulated and, in any case, unenforced. Given this difficulty, it becomes evident that the...