The Role Of Business In Global Governance: Corporations As Norm-entrepreneurs (global Issues)

the Role Of Business In Global Governance offers An Empirically Rich Analysis Of The New Political Role Of Corporations In The Co-performance Of Governance Functions Beyond The State. Within Comparative Case Studies, Potential Explanations Of The Political Role Of Transnational Corporations Are Systematically Tested. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 11 Notes on the Authors......Page 12 List of Abbreviations......Page 13 Part I: The Research Context......Page 16 1 Introduction: Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship and Global Governance......Page 18 1.1 Corporations as political actors: from problem causers to problem solvers?......Page 22 1.2 Corporate norm-entrepreneurship and the future global governance architecture......Page 28 1.3 Aim and structure of this book......Page 31 2.1 What is corporate norm-entrepreneurship?......Page 33 2.2 How to identify corporate norm-entrepreneurs?......Page 38 2.3 How to explain corporate norm-entrepreneurship?......Page 44 Part II: Causes of Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship......Page 54 3.1 Transnational public......Page 56 3.2 The home state......Page 67 3.3 The heterogeneity of regulatory environments......Page 81 4.1 Corporate vulnerability......Page 96 4.2 Ownership structure......Page 109 4.3 Corporate culture......Page 123 5.1 Structural autonomy......Page 141 5.2 Flexibility......Page 151 5.3 Legitimacy perceptions......Page 161 6 Comparisons for Conclusions: Different Paths to Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship......Page 176 6.1 Necessary pre-conditions......Page 177 6.2 The rationalist narrative – from vulnerability to norm-entrepreneurship......Page 179 6.3 The constructivist narrative – norm-entrepreneurship via home state socialization......Page 180 6.4 The pull factors......Page 181 Part III: Evaluating Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship......Page 184 7.1 Developing a conceptual frame for analyzing the effectiveness of institutions......Page 186 7.2 Empirical application......Page 189 7.3 Comparing the effectiveness of self-regulatory arrangements......Page 209 8 The Legitimacy of Transnational Private Governance......Page 217 8.1 A governance perspective on the legitimacy of corporate norm-entrepreneurship......Page 218 8.2 The legitimacy potential of different types of corporate norm-entrepreneurship......Page 226 9 A New Architecture for Global Governance......Page 247 9.1 The gap between likely and meaningful corporate contributions to norm setting and norm development......Page 248 9.2 The constitutional background of policy recommendations......Page 251 9.3 General policy guidelines......Page 258 9.4 Policy recommendations......Page 263 Bibliography......Page 271 C......Page 296 I......Page 297 P......Page 298 W......Page 299 The Role Of Business in Global Governance offers a theoretically innovative and empirically rich analysis of the new political role of corporations in the co-performance of governance functions beyond the state. It takes stock of the different types of private contributions to transnational governance as an expression of the new interplay between the state, the business sector and civil society. It provides an understanding, grounded in theory, of the potential and the limits of private self-regulatory arrangements as components of future global governance architecture. It investigates under what conditions which kinds of private contributions to governance beyond the state can be expected; and offers a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness and legitimacy potential of private contributions to global governance. By conceptualizing the role change of business actors as corporate norm-entrepreneurship and employing a comprehensive set of criteria for its evaluation, this book goes much further than other studies in the field