Some of us, scholars studying certifications, like to think that our field is very new. Yet, Taylor was writing about certifications a good forty years before we started thinking about them…
Certifications ask customers to meet XYZ requirements. However, for certifications to change entire sectors/industries, one or more of the following things need to happen…
The shortest summary of my PhD is the following: it’s hard to be a voluntary carbon offset certification! Don’t believe me? Check out the figure below, which shows the total value generated by the most prominent certifications in voluntary carbon markets between the launch of the first fully-fledged certification in the market and the beginning…
You may have heard the name ‘ISO’, or perhaps even about the ‘NFPA’, but do you know how much of your life these organisations touch? The (Switzerland-based) International Organization for Standardization (ISO) The quality-oriented ISO 9000 is probably the most well-spread certification in the planet so you may have heard of that one. But the…
Some of the most visible standards in the world happen to be certifications. A famous case is the International Standarisation Organisation’s (ISO) quality-oriented ISO 9000, probably the most widespread certification scheme in the planet. And yet, not all standards are certifications. But not all standards are certifications. At its core, a process of standardisation is…
Some of the most visible standards in the world happen to be certifications. The best example is the International Standarisation Organisation’s (ISO) quality-oriented ISO 9000, which is probably the most widespread certification scheme in the planet. And yet, not all standards are certifications. My favourite example of a non-certification standard is the latest trend in…
Once upon a time, the state’s control of the rules and standards upon which we live our lives was undisputed. But not any longer. Today, many non-state actors have a significant deal of influence in the governance and regulation of human affairs. Many of these efforts continue to be extremely decentered and informal but a…