The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance. Offers new insights into the role of global companies in relation to policy and governance at local, national, and international levels Brings together newly–commissioned research by a global team of established and up–and–coming scholars from the fields of international relations, political science, public policy, and beyond Considers the environmental and societal responsibilities of global corporations. Covers topics including the spatial locations of global companies; debate about the power they wield and their role as catalysts in new forms of governance; and the ways in which global companies share authority with the state and international organizations to drive policy processes Speculates on the broader potential and limitations of global governance INDICE: List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xiii Preface xxi 1 Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance 1 John Mikler Part I Locating Global Companies 17 2 The Global Company 19 Hinrich Voss 3 The National Identity of Global Companies 35 Stephen Wilks 4 Big Business in the BRICs 53 Andrea Goldstein Part II Global Companies and Power 75 5 Theorizing the Power of Global Companies 77 Doris Fuchs 6 Why, When, and How Global Companies Get Organized 96 Tony Porter and Sherri Brown 7 How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International Business 113 Stephen Bell 8 How Global Companies Wield Their Power: The Discursive Shaping of Sustainable Development 134 Nina Kolleck Part III Global Companies and the State 153 9 How Global Companies Make National Regulations 155 Terry O’Callaghan and Vlado Vivoda 10 Making Government More “Business–Like”: Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political Economies 173 Denis Saint–Martin 11 East Asian Development States and Global Companies as Partners of Techno–Industrial Competitiveness 193 Sung–Young Kim 12 Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The Case of China 209 Shiufai Wong 13 Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries 227 Caner Bakir and Cantay Caliskan Part IV Global Companies and International Organizations 239 14 Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism 241 Sarianna M. Lundan 15 Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization 257 Cornelia Woll 16 Business Interests Shaping International Institutions: Negotiating the Trans–Pacific Partnership Agreement 272 Deborah Elms 17 Global Companies and the Environment: The Triumph of TNCs in Global Environmental Governance 285 Matthias Finger 18 Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and Global Inequality 300 Pamela Blackmon 19 Outsourcing Global Governance: Public–Private Voluntary Initiatives 316 Marianne Thissen–Smits and Patrick Bernhagen Part V Global Companies and Society 333 20 Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social Contract 335 Ann Florini 21 Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private Business in Global Governance 351 Tanja Bru¨hl and Matthias Hofferberth 22 The Socially Embedded Corporation 371 Kate Macdonald 23 Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology 388 Frank Boons Part VI The Exercise and Limitations of Private Global Governance 403 24 Global Companies as Agents of Globalization 405 Shana M. Starobin 25 The Greening of Capitalism 421 John A. Mathews 26 Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labor Standards 437 Luc Fransen 27 Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the Global Mining Sector 456 Hevina S. Dashwood 28 Will Business Save the World? 474 Simon Zadek Index 493
- ISBN: 978-0-470-67323-2
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 10/05/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés