The Handbook of Global Companies: Mikler/The Handbook

Content: Chapter 1 Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance (pages 1–16): John Mikler Chapter 2 The Global Company (pages 19–34): Hinrich Voss Chapter 3 The National Identity of Global Companies (pages 35–52): Stephen Wilks Chapter 4 Big Business in the BRICs (pages 53–74): Andrea Goldstein Chapter 5 Theorizing the Power of Global Companies (pages 77–95): Doris Fuchs Chapter 6 Why, When, and How Global Companies Get Organized (pages 96–112): Tony Porter and Sherri Brown Chapter 7 How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International Business (pages 113–133): Stephen Bell Chapter 8 How Global Companies Wield Their Power: The Discursive Shaping of Sustainable Development (pages 134–152): Nina Kolleck Chapter 9 How Global Companies Make National Regulations (pages 155–172): Terry O'Callaghan and Vlado Vivoda Chapter 10 Making Government More “Business?Like”: Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political Economies (pages 173–192): Denis Saint?Martin Chapter 11 East Asian Development States and Global Companies as Partners of Techno?Industrial Competitiveness (pages 193–208): Sung?Young Kim Chapter 12 Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The Case of China (pages 209–226): Shiufai Wong Chapter 13 Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries (pages 227–237): Caner Bakir and Cantay Caliskan Chapter 14 Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (pages 241–256): Sarianna M. Lundan Chapter 15 Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization (pages 257–271): Cornelia Woll Chapter 16 Business Interests Shaping International Institutions: Negotiating the Trans?Pacific Partnership Agreement (pages 272–284): Deborah Elms Chapter 17 Global Companies and the Environment: The Triumph of TNCs in Global Environmental Governance (pages 285–299): Matthias Finger Chapter 18 Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and Global Inequality (pages 300–315): Pamela Blackmon Chapter 19 Outsourcing Global Governance: Public?Private Voluntary Initiatives (pages 316–332): Marianne Thissen?Smits and Patrick Bernhagen Chapter 20 Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social Contract (pages 335–350): Ann Florini Chapter 21 Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private Business in Global Governance (pages 351–370): Tanja Bruhl and Matthias Hofferberth Chapter 22 The Socially Embedded Corporation (pages 371–387): Kate Macdonald Chapter 23 Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology (pages 388–402): Frank Boons Chapter 24 Global Companies as Agents of Globalization (pages 405–420): Shana M. Starobin Chapter 25 The Greening of Capitalism (pages 421–436): John A. Mathews Chapter 26 Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labor Standards (pages 437–455): Luc Fransen Chapter 27 Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the Global Mining Sector (pages 456–473): Hevina S. Dashwood Chapter 28 Will Business Save the World? (pages 474–491): Simon Zadek 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