Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation

Edited by Andreas Nölke and Christian May, Institute of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

'This book does an excellent job of bringing together a range of studies that give centrality to corporations, often anchored in national systems but with global aspirations. Different countries and regions, as well as different policy fields, are covered, and different theoretical perspectives from specialists across the social sciences are offered. The Handbook provides interesting examples of how corporations exercise power, may come to dominate policy at domestic and international levels and under specific circumstances are strong enough to present themselves as problem solvers.'--Karsten Ronit, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Contents: 1. The delusion of the global corporation: Introduction to the HandbookChristian May and Andreas NölkePART I THE CORPORATION AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS2. Corporate governance and accountabilityAntoine Rebérioux and Gwenaël Roudaut3. Interlocking directorates and corporate networksJ.P. Sapinski and William K. Carroll4. Labour in the corporation: the political economy of capital versus the political economy of labourMatthias Ebenau5. Worker co-operatives and other alternative forms of business organizationSanjay Pinto6. Corporations, gender equality and women’s empowerment: feminism co-opted?Catia Gregoratti, Adrienne Roberts and Sofie Tornhill7. The state and public corporationsJudith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes8. Corruption, organizational deviance and corporate complianceMarkus Pohlmann and Julian KlinkhammerPART II DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDING OF THE CORPORATION9. The company in Western business systems and national varieties of advanced capitalismSandra Eckert10. The institutional embeddedness of transnational corporations: dependent capitalism in Central and Eastern EuropeVera Šćepanović and Dorothee Bohle 11. Asian business systemsMichael A. Witt12. Natural resource corporations and patrimonial capitalism: Russia and the Arab regionAlexandra Dienes (née Vasileva)13. Social embedding of the corporation: family conglomerates around the worldDiego Finchelstein14. The varying role of the state in the making of Latin American multinationalsMoisés V. Balestro15. Affirmative action and corporate development in Malaysia and South AfricaHwok-Aun Lee and Lumkile MondiPART III CROSS-BORDER INVESTMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS16. Multinational enterprises: theories, practices, effects and policiesFilip de Beule and Andreja Jaklič17. Power relations within multinational corporationsGlenn Morgan18. Host State Bargaining with MultinationalsCaner Bakir and Judith Woods19. The corporation and violent conflict: perspectives, policy responses and future trendsBrian Ganson and Achim Wennmann20. The international regime for investment: a history of failed multilateralismTarald Laudal Berge and Helge Hveem21. The African corporation, ‘Africapitalism’ and regional integration in AfricaOkechukwu C. IheduruPART IV THE CORPORATION AS A GLOBAL PLAYER22. The corporation as an institution of global governanceChristopher May23. Corporations and global standards of corporate social responsibilityDaniel Kinderman24. The modern financial corporation and global policyKevin Young25. Corporations and global trade policy-making in the twenty-first centuryJappe Eckhardt26. Value chains and the world economy: genealogies and reformulationsLiam Campling and Benjamin Selwyn27. The power of corporations in global food sector governanceTobias Gumbert and Doris Fuchs28. Global corporations and the governance of standardsJean-Christophe GrazIndex