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    Post-Partnership Strategies for Defining Corporate Responsibility: The Business Social Compliance Initiative
    (Springer, 2007) Egels-Zandén, Niklas; Wahlqvist, Evelina; Department of Human and Economic Geography, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg; Wahlqvist, E. Dep of Human and Economic Geography, Gothenburg university
    While cross-sectoral partnerships are frequently presented as a way to achieve sustainable development, some corporations that first tried using the strategy are now changing direction. Growing tired of what are, in their eyes, inefficient and unproductive cross-sectoral partnerships, firms are starting to form post-cross-sectoral partnerships (‘post-partnerships’) open exclusively to corporations. This paper examines one such post-partnership project, the Business Social Compliance Initiative, to analyse the possibility of post-partnerships establishing stable definitions of ‘corporate responsibility’. We do this by creating a theoretical framework based on actor–network theory and institutional theory. Using this framework, we show that post-partnerships suffer from the paradox of striving to marginalise those stakeholders whose support they need for establishing stable definitions of ‘corporate responsibility’. We conclude by discussing whether or not post-partnership strategies, despite this paradox, can be expected to establish stable definitions of ‘corporate responsibility’.