Kolcava, D., Smith, E.K. & Bernauer, T. Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments. Nat Sustain 6, 69–80 (2023)

Objective:

• How to make sense of the widespread, unlateral policy shifts towards stronger sustainability transparency regulations of global supply chains with industrialized economies

Case:

• 12 global countries

Methodology:

• OLS

Data Source: partial open

• Survey

Findings:

• Most respondents agree that governments should adopt new laws to make information disclosure on environmental and working conditions mandatory
• Citizens prefer policies that apply to companies of most sizes, having a slight preference for policies applying to large and very large companies
• Policies that aim to strongly increase transparency obtain strong support
• Respondents prefer robust government enforcement competencies in cases of non-compliance

• Much stricker transparency reporting and strong government enforcement obtain the strongest support
• Support for increased policy scope is moderately related to environmental attitudes and political orientation
• Support for increased transparency reporting requirements is more strongly associated with environmental attitudes and political orientation

Coding Reference:

• Stata