Arbeitspapier

Local global watchdogs: Trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism

International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting for the geography of their targets' economic activities. We propose a model of global sourcing and international trade in which heterogeneous NGOs campaign against heterogeneous firms in response to infringements along their international value chains. We find that campaigns are determined by a triadic gravity equation where all three bilateral trade costs matter for NGO campaigns. Importantly, the sourcing trade costs between the supplier and the firm, which do not involve the country of the NGO, shape the patterns of NGO campaigns through their effect on the sourcing decision of firms. We use recently available data on NGO campaigns to estimate our triadic gravity equation and find strong support for this prediction.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Passauer Diskussionspapiere - Volkswirtschaftliche Reihe ; No. V-86-21

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
Economic Impacts of Globalization: General
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Economic Development
Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation
Thema
international trade
international sourcing
gravity
NGOs
campaigns
social activism

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Koenig, Pamina
Krautheim, Sebastian
Löhnert, Claudius
Verdier, Thierry
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Universität Passau, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
(wo)
Passau
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Koenig, Pamina
  • Krautheim, Sebastian
  • Löhnert, Claudius
  • Verdier, Thierry
  • Universität Passau, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät

Entstanden

  • 2021

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