Description
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Global Companies compiles a series of original essays by established experts and emerging scholars to address the latest theoretical findings and empirical evidence relating to the role of global companies in national, regional and international governance.
Trade Review“Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.” (Choice, 1 February 2014)
Table of ContentsList 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
