Contact info:
Indiana University
Dept. of Sociology
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Ballantine Hall 744
Bloomington, IN 47405
ph: 812-856-1370
BartleyT <at> indiana <dot> edu
 

Tim Bartley
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Indiana University-Bloomington
Co-editor, Regulation & Governance

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Areas of specialization:


Political Sociology—Transnational governance, Regulation

 

Economic and Organizational Sociology—Institutional theory, Corporate social responsibility

 

Social Movements—Movements and organizations, Movement-firm interactions

 

Environmental/sustainability standards

 

Labor and labor standards

 

 

 

Misc:

Presentation at Oxford (Nov. 2010), “Standards for Sweatshops: Voluntary Labor Standards Programs in Global Supply Chains” (video)

Presentation at Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil (Aug. 2010), “Making Sense of the Certification Model: Principles and Propositions for Comparative Research” (video)

Commissioned report, “How Certification Matters: Examining Mechanisms of Influence” (for the Packard Foundation and Resources Legacy Fund) (contact for copy)

Indiana University “Framing the Global” project fellows

 

CV

 

Selected publications

 

Transnational Private Regulation Across Multiple Fields

 

"Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization:  The Rise of Transnational Private Regulation of Labor and Environmental Conditions."  American Journal of Sociology 113(2):297-351 (2007).

Transnational Private Regulation in Practice: The Limits of Forest and Labor Standards Certification in Indonesia.” Business & Politics vol.112, iss.3:article 7 (Sept. 2010)

Transnational Governance as the Layering of Rules: Intersections of Public and Private Standards.”  Theoretical Inquiries in Law 12(2):25-51. (July 2011)

"Certification as a Mode of Social Regulation." In Handbook on the Politics of Regulation, edited by David Levi-Faur. Edward Elgar Publishing (2011) (book  info)

"Communities of Practice as Cause and Consequence of Transnational Governance” (with Shawna Smith). In Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance, edited by Marie-Laure Djelic and Sigrid Quack, 2010, Cambridge University Press.

Labor Standards and Movements

“Movements, Markets, and Fields: The Effects of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns on U.S. Firms, 1993-2000” (with Curtis Child).  Social Forces (forthcoming).  (pre-pub version)

"Standards for Sweatshops: The Power and Limits of Club Theory for Explaining Voluntary Labor Standards Programs". Revised version appears in Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Approach, edited by Matthew Potoski and Aseem Prakash, (2009), MIT Press.

Corporate Accountability and the Privatization of Labor Standards: Struggles over Codes of Conduct in the Apparel Industry.”  Research in Political Sociology 14:211-244 (2005).

Environmental Standards, Movements, and Governance

"How Foundations Shape Social Movements: The Construction of an Organizational Field and the Rise of Forest Certification."  Social Problems 54(3):229-255 (2007).

"The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance.Society & Natural Resources (with Andersson, Jagger, and van Laerhoven) (2007).

Regulation and Institutional Change  

"Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the 19th to 21st Century (with Marc Schneiberg)  Annual Review of Law & Social Science, vol. 4, 2008.

"Regulating or Redesigning Finance? Market Architectures, Normal Accidents, and Dilemmas of Regulatory Reform" (with Marc Schneiberg). Research on the Sociology of Organizations 30A:281-307 (2010). (More info)

NGOs and Social Movement Organizations

“NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision, and Regulation” (with Todd Beer and Wade T. Roberts).  In Oxford Handbook of Governance, edited by David Levi-Faur.  Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2012).  (Book info) (Contact for copy)

"Social Movement Organizations" (with Elizabeth A. Armstrong). In Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, ed. by George Ritzer (2007).

 

Courses taught

S510--Introduction to Social Organization (graduate level)

S410--Consumers, Corporations, and Capitalism

S371--Statistics for Sociology
----Click here to see STUDENT REPORTS on sustainability data (Dec. 2009)----

S660--Conflict, Change, and Institutions (graduate seminar)

S101--Sociology of Environment