Business and Global Governance

ISBN-13: 9780415493376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 270 str.

Morten Ougaard;Anna Leander

Opis

Over the past two decades the role of business in global governance has become increasingly topical. Transnational business associations are increasingly visible in international policy debates and intergovernmental institutions, and there is a heightened attention to global policy making in national and international business communities.

This text examines and explains the multiple modes of engagement between business and global governance and presents a variety of the theoretical approaches that can be used to analyse them, along with empirical illustrations. Divided into four parts that summarize the different modes of engagement, each section is illustrated by two or three studies that represent a distinct theoretical take on the issue with empirical illustrations. It examines:

1. Business as master and purpose of global governance
2. Business practise as governance in its own right.
3. Business as subject and opponent to global governance
4. Business as partner and facilitator of global governance

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of business, International Relations, International Politics and International Political Economy, as well as for practitioners, public and private.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Business and Global Governance  Part 1: Business as Master of Global Governance  2. Direct and Indirect Influence at the World Intellectual Property Organization  3. Practices (Re)Producing Orders: Understanding the Role of Business in Global Security Governance  4. Unthinking the Gats: A Radical Political Economy Critique of Private Transnational Governance  Part 2: Business as Subject to Global Governance  5. Business and Global Climate Governance: A Neo-Pluralist Perspective  6. Governing Corruption through the Global Corporation  7. Transnational Governance Networks in The Regulation of Finance – The Making of Global Regulation and Supervision Standards in the Banking Industry  8. Non-Triad Multinationals and Global Governance: Still A North-South Conflict?  Part 3: Business as Partner in Global Governance  9. Rethinking Multilateralism: Global Governance and Public-Private Partnerships with the UN  10. Iso and The Success of Regulation through Voluntary Consensus  11. Beyond the Boardroom: "Multilocation" and the Business Face of Celebrity Diplomacy  12. Variations in Corporate Norm-Entrepreneurship: Why the Home State Matters

O autorze

Morten Ougaard is Professor of International Political Economy, and Director of the International Business and Politics Program at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Towards a Global Polity - also published by Routledge.

Anna Leander is Professor of International Political Economy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.  She is the co-editor of Constructivism and International Relations: Wendt and his Critics - also published by Routledge.