The Handbook of Global Companies (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Mikler, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118326145
• Artikelnr.: 37758295

Autorenporträt

John Mikler is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His research interests are primarily focused on the role of transnational economic actors, particularly multinational corporations, and the interaction between them and states, international organizations and civil society. He is the author of Greening the Car Industry: Varieties of Capitalism and Climate Change (2009), and has published widely in journals including Business and Politics, Regulation and Governance, Global Society, Policy and Society, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and New Political Economy.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Brühl 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

Rezensionen

"Global companies represent challenges of governance which need to be studied comprehensively and systematically. This handbook tackles this challenge successfully and represents both the scholarly progress and the maturity of this field of study. It is a must in any social sciences library and will be highly useful for scholars, graduate students and undergraduates alike." -- David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"This is an excellent volume examining the role multinational corporations play in global public policy processes. The contributors recognize that motivations and strategies of the these firms cannot be reduced to profit maximization. To understand how corporations influence policy, one must explore the complex nature of the modern global firm. The Handbook of Global Companies will enlighten the on-going debates on globalization and public policy." -- Aseem Prakash, University of Washington

"For all their impact on the global policy environment, multinational companies remain relatively understudied outside the management and international business framework. This Handbook, deftly edited by John Mikler, identifies how global companies are political and social, as well as economic, actors that drive globalization, and in turn are shaped by it. The chapters, written by both distinguished and rising scholars, provide a welcome breadth of coverage, ranging from theoretical and political issues of power to social issues of sustainability and the role of corporations in safeguarding (or destroying) the planet. This impressive handbook is destined to become a standard reference for anyone interested in global companies as policy actors." -- Linda Weiss, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney

"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (Choice, 1 February 2014)