Timothy Bartley
Tim Bartley received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona
in 2003. He does research at the intersections of political,
organizational, and economic sociology. His current work focuses on
globalization, the emergence of new institutions, and the rise of a
"corporate social responsibility" field. One major strand of this research
examines the emergence of private transnational regulation of labor and
environmental conditions, comparing programs dealing with environmental
standards for forest products with those focused on labor standards in the
apparel industry. He is also developing analyses of the cultural bases of
institutional innovation and the interactions between social movements and
their corporate targets. In other research, he has examined economic
regulation in the early 20th century, homelessness and the day labor
industry, and the decentralization of natural resource governance (the
latter with scholars from IU's Center for the Study of Institutions,
Population, and Environmental Change (CIPEC)).
