|  | Mikler, John (ed.)
The Handbook of Global Companies
HGP - Handbooks of Global Policy
 1. Edition May 2013
155.- Euro
2013. 544 Pages, Hardcover
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN 978-0-470-67323-2 - John Wiley & Sons
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The 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. Questions surrounding the ways global companies share authority to effect new forms of governance with states and international organizations are covered, as are their relations with civil society. Particular industries are considered, such as the role of the finance industry and national regulators, the role of mining companies in developing countries, and the role of consulting firms as agents of change. Central themes facing the world and the role of global companies are considered, including development, inequality, the environment, and social responsibility. New forms of global companies and the role they play in emerging markets, such as China, are also covered.
From the contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction: Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance
John Mikler, University of Sydney, Australia
Part 1: Locating Global Companies
2. The Global Company
Hinrich Voss, University of Leeds, UK
3. The National Identity of Global Companies
Stephen Wilks, University of Exeter, UK
4. Big Business in the BRICs
Andrea Goldstein, OECD, France
Part 2: Global Companies and Power
5. Theorizing the Power of Global Companies
Doris Fuchs, WWU Münster, Germany
6. Why, When and How Global Companies get Organized
Tony Porter, McMaster University, Canada
Sherri Brown, McMaster University, Canada
7. How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International Business
Stephen Bell, University of Queensland, Australia
8. How Global Companies Wield their Power: The Discursive Shaping of Sustainable Development
Nina Kolleck, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Part 3: Global Companies and the State
9. How Global Companies Make National Regulations
Terry O'Callghan, University of South Australia, Australia
Vlado Vivoda, Griffith University, Australia
10. Making Government More 'Business-Like': Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political Economies
Denis Saint-Martin, Université de Montréal, Canada
11. East Asian Development States and Global Companies as Partners of Techno-Industrial Competitiveness
Sung-Young Kim, University of Auckland, New
12. Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The Case of China
Shiufai Wong, Macao Polytechnic Institute, China
13. Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries
Caner Bakir and Cantay Caliskan, Koç University, Turkey
Part 4: Global Companies and International Organisations
14. Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism
Sarianna Lundan, University of Bremen, Germany
15. Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization
Cornelia Woll, Sciences Po and Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Societies, France
16. Business Interests Shaping International Institutions: Negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Deborah Elms, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
17. Global Companies and the Environment: the Triumph of TNCs in Global Environmental Governance
Matthias Finger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
18. Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions and Global Inequality
Pamela Blackmon, Penn State Altoona, USA
19. Outsourcing Global Governance: Public-Private Voluntary Initiatives
Marianne Thissen-Smits, University of Aberdeen, UK
Patrick Bernhagen, University of Aberdeen, UK
Part 5: Global Companies and Society
20. Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social Contract
Ann Florini, Singapore Management University, Singapore
21. Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private Business in Global Governance
Tanja Brühl, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Matthias Hofferberth, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Main, Germany
22. The Socially Embedded Corporation
Kate MacDonald, University of Melbourne, Australia
23. Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology
Frank Boons, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Part 6: The Exercise and Limitations of Private Global Governance
24. Global Companies as Agents of Globalisation
Shana Starobin, Duke University, USA
25. The Greening of Capitalism
John Mathews, Macquarie University, Australia
26. Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labour Standards
Luc Fransen, European University Institute, Italy
27. Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the Global Mining Sector
Hevina Dashwood, Brock University, Canada
28. Will Business Save the World?
Simon Zadek, Independent Writer, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Switzerland, Global Green Growth Institute, Republic of Korea.
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