The Power of Standards

Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? Graz draws on international political economy and cognate fields to present strong theoretical arguments, compelling research and surprising evidence on the role of standards in the global expansion of services, with in-depth studies of their institutional environment and cases including the insurance industry and business process outsourcing in India. The power of standards resembles a form of transnational hybrid authority, in which ambiguity should be seen as a generic attribute, defining not only the status of public and private actors involved in standardisation and regulation, but also the scope of issues concerned and the space in which such authority is recognised when complying to standards. This book is also available as Open Access.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-11
Mått:156 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108499866

Utforska kategorier

Internationell ekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Folkrätt inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

Jean-Christophe Graz is Full Professor of international relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Historiques et Internationales (IEPHI) ofUniversité de Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-founder of the Centre d'Histoire Internationale et d'Etudes Politiques de la Mondialisation (CRHIM). He is also honorary visiting professor at the Department of International Politics at City, University of London.

Recensioner i media

'This volume makes a significant contribution to scholarship on global governance. It traces the 'power of standards' and its connections to 'hybrid authority'. Steering clear of simplifications, the volume emphasizes the generic ambiguity of the standards that define the status of public and private actors, the issues and the spaces of global governance that in turn redefine the standards. The volume does this moving from an overarching analysis of the trade in services, to an analysis of the insurance industry and the outsourcing of business processes to India. Graz offers a refreshingly non-dogmatic, empirically grounded engagement with the questions surrounding who governs, how and with what implications in the contemporary world.' Anna Leander, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement, Geneva

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The rise of transnational hybrid authority: a primer; 2. Service offshoring: the new frontier of globalisation; 3. Standards as regulation; 4. Doubling security: prudential standards for insurance regulation; 5. Standards to create new insurance markets; 6. The world office; 7. Standards and business process outsourcing in India; Conclusions.