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Harvard-MIT Private Governance Working Group > Publications

Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification.
Hiscox, Michael J., Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel.
Harvard Business School Working Paper
, No. 08-097, May 2008.

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers.
Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel.
Harvard Business School Working Paper
, No. 09-018, August 2008.

Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies.
Reid, Erin Marie, and Michael W. Toffel.
Harvard Business School Working Paper
, No. 09-019, August 2008.

Coming Clean and Cleaning Up: Is Voluntary Disclosure a Signal of Effective Self-Policing?
Toffel, Michael W., and Jodi L. Short.
Harvard Business School Working Paper
, No. 08-098, May 2008.

Is There a Demand for Labor Standards? Evidence from Field Experiments in Social Labeling.
Hiscox, Michael, and Nick Smyth.
Working Paper 2008-0058, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, November 2005.

Fair Trade and Globalization.
Hiscox, Michael.
Working Paper 2008-0057, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, February 23, 2007.

Beyond corporate codes of conduct: Work organization and labour standards at Nike’s suppliers.
Locke, Richard, Thomas Kochan, Monica Romis and Fei Qin.
International Labour Review
, Vol. 146, No. 1–2, 2007.

Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike.
Locke, Richard, Fei Qin and Alberto Brause.
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61, No. 1, October 2007.

Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain.
Locke, Richard and Monica Romis.
MIT Sloan Management Review, Vol. 48, No. 2, Winter 2007.

Virtue out of Necessity?: Compliance, Commitment and the Improvement of Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Locke, Richard, Matthew Amengual, and Akshay Mangla.
Draft, Oct. 2008.