Handbook of Global Companies

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.

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• List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xiiiPreface xxi1 Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance 1John MiklerPart I Locating Global Companies 172 The Global Company 19Hinrich Voss3 The National Identity of Global Companies 35Stephen Wilks4 Big Business in the BRICs 53Andrea GoldsteinPart II Global Companies and Power 755 Theorizing the Power of Global Companies 77Doris Fuchs6 Why, When, and How Global Companies Get Organized 96Tony Porter and Sherri Brown7 How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International Business 113Stephen Bell8 How Global Companies Wield Their Power: The Discursive Shaping of Sustainable Development 134Nina KolleckPart III Global Companies and the State 1539 How Global Companies Make National Regulations 155Terry O’Callaghan and Vlado Vivoda10 Making Government More “Business-Like”: Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political Economies 173Denis Saint-Martin11 East Asian Development States and Global Companies as Partners of Techno-Industrial Competitiveness 193Sung-Young Kim12 Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The Case of China 209Shiufai Wong13 Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries 227Caner Bakir and Cantay CaliskanPart IV Global Companies and International Organizations 23914 Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism 241Sarianna M. Lundan15 Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization 257Cornelia Woll16 Business Interests Shaping International Institutions: Negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement 272Deborah Elms17 Global Companies and the Environment: The Triumph of TNCs in Global Environmental Governance 285Matthias Finger18 Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and Global Inequality 300Pamela Blackmon19 Outsourcing Global Governance: Public-Private Voluntary Initiatives 316Marianne Thissen-Smits and Patrick BernhagenPart V Global Companies and Society 33320 Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social Contract 335Ann Florini21 Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private Business in Global Governance 351Tanja Bru¨hl and Matthias Hofferberth22 The Socially Embedded Corporation 371Kate Macdonald23 Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology 388Frank BoonsPart VI The Exercise and Limitations of Private Global Governance 40324 Global Companies as Agents of Globalization 405Shana M. Starobin25 The Greening of Capitalism 421John A. Mathews26 Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labor Standards 437Luc Fransen27 Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the Global Mining Sector 456Hevina S. Dashwood28 Will Business Save the World? 474Simon ZadekIndex 493