Responsible Care: An Assessment

Responsible Care is a voluntary code of conduct developed, enforced, and monitored by the Chemical Manufacturers Association. Voluntary codes could be designed and enforced by regulators, nonprofit groups, industry associations, and individual firms. They could vary in their scope, focusing on firms...

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Published inBusiness & society Vol. 39; no. 2; pp. 183 - 209
Main Author Prakash, Aseem
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2000
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SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Associations
Business ethics
Chemical industry
Codes
Collective action
General studies
ISO standards
Market entry
NGOs
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Prices
Regulation
Social responsibility
Sociology
Sociology of work
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Stakeholders
Industry
Services
Enterprise
Chemical Industry
Code
Social Implication
Challenge
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Summary:Responsible Care is a voluntary code of conduct developed, enforced, and monitored by the Chemical Manufacturers Association. Voluntary codes could be designed and enforced by regulators, nonprofit groups, industry associations, and individual firms. They could vary in their scope, focusing on firms around the globe, in a given region, within a country, or in a given industry. This article focuses on Responsible Care’s self-regulatory services that pertain to establishing, monitoring, and enforcing industry-wide environmental, health, and safety standards. Employing insights from the club theory, stakeholder theory, institutionalist theory, and the corporate social performance perspective, it examines the demand and supply sides of voluntary codes. Finally, it discusses theoretical implications and the key challenges faced by Responsible Care in the future.
ISSN:0007-6503
1552-4205
DOI:10.1177/000765030003900204