Kate MacDonald

Grappling with injustice: Corporate crime, multinational business and interrogation of law in context

Fiona Haines, Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2021  |  Theoretical Criminology

This article interrogates criminological ambivalence towards law as both essential in the control of corporate crime and as an ena..

Private Sustainability Governance and Global Corporate Power

Kate MacDonald

Book Chapter  |  2020

This authoritative book examines the power of multinational corporations (MNCs) to exert influence in global politics.

Regulating sustainable minerals in electronics supply chains: local power struggles and the ‘hidden costs’ of global tin supply chain governance

R Diprose, N Kurniawan, K Macdonald, P Winanti

Journal article  |  2020  |  Review of International Political Economy

Voluntary supply chain regulation has proliferated in recent decades in response to concerns about the social and environmental im..

Towards a 'pluralist' world order: creative agency and legitimacy in global institutions

Terry Macdonald, Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  European Journal of International Relations

This article addresses the question of how we should understand the normative grounds of legitimacy in global governance instituti..

Resource governance and norm domestication in the developing world

K Macdonald, J Nem Singh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Policy and Governance

Pandemics, politics and principles: business and human rights in Southeast Asia in a time of crisis.

Andrew Rosser, Kate MacDonald, Ken Setiawan

Journal article  |  2020  |  Melbourne Asia Review

Business activity has been a key driver of economic dynamism in Southeast Asia and one of the main reasons for the region’s growin..

Obstacles to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Melbourne Asia Review

In June 2011, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unanimously passed the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business..

Private sustainability standards as tools for empowering southern pro-regulatory coalitions? Collaboration, conflict and the pursuit of sustainable palm oil

Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecological Economics

The social and environmental impact of commodity production in the global south is now governed by an array of global market-drive..

The politics of norm domestication in private transnational business regulation: A typology and illustrations

Kate MacDonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environmental Policy and Governance

Scholars and practitioners of global private business regulation have often recognised the importance of political and institution..

Nonjudicial business regulation and community access to remedy

Fiona Haines, Kate Macdonald

Journal article  |  2020  |  Regulation & Governance

Redress for communities harmed by transnational business activity remains elusive. This paper examines community efforts to access..