Responsabilité sociale inter-firmes, coordination et régulation de la firme-réseau multinationale : une analyse économique

This paper deals with the issues of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the lens of inter-firm relationships. This form of ?inter-firm social responsibility? (IFSR) is based on the implementation of different institutional mechanisms of coordination such as labels, codes, agreements and certificates. The aim of this paper is to study the normative scope of the regulatory principle of socioeconomic relationships from two of these mechanisms, namely, conduct codes and ISO norms, from an economic perspective, of which both the logic and the efficacy of these devices were analyzed. It was shown that even though conduct codes and ISO norms attempt to make inter-firm coordination easier and allow for the internalization of the negative externalities produced by subcontractors in terms of the social and environmental impacts, each of them is singular. The crucial normative roles that these institutional devices play in the governance and regulation of the international network-firm were shown in a more specific way.