Front Cover -- Business and Global Governance -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introducing business and global governance: Morten Ougaard -- Introduction -- Beginnings -- Understanding international business -- Policy regimes for international business -- Business in global governance -- The volume -- Note -- References -- Part I: Business as master of global governance -- 2. Direct and indirect influence at the world intellectual property organization: Christopher May -- Business power from a critical perspective -- Corporations and intellectual property -- The global governance of intellectual property: between the WTO and the WIPO -- Norms in global governance: making property in knowledge normal -- Critical IPE, the (re)production of norms and power in global governance -- Notes -- References -- 3. Practices (re)producing orders: understanding the role of business in global security governance: Anna Leander -- Blinders obscuring business's part in global security governance -- Breaking with formalism: global governance as practice -- Breaking with atomism: contextualizing practices -- The rise (and possible decline) of business in global governance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Unthinking the GATSA: a radical political economy critique of private transnational governance: A. Claire Cutler -- The GATS and subjectivity in transnational governance -- Law and the modern corporate subject -- Imperfect subjects and unthinking the GATS -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Business as subject to global governance -- 5. Business and global climate governance: a neo-pluralist perspective Robert Falkner -- Introduction -- The neo-pluralist perspective on business in global governance -- Business and the global politics of climate change -- Conclusions -- References.

6. Governing corruption through the global corporation: Hans Krause Hansen -- Introduction -- Corruption governance -- Corruption governance as business regulation -- Corruption governance as the management of risk, performance and transparency -- Conclusions and perspectives -- Note -- References -- 7. Transnational governance networks in the regulation of finance: the making of global regulation and supervision standards in the banking industry: Eleni Tsingou -- Financial sector regulation and supervision: trends, policies and interests -- Explaining financial governance: the role of transnational governance networks -- Basel II - or how private interests become public policy -- Business and the governance of finance -- Implications for global governance: building legitimacy in a time of crisis? -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 8. Non-triad multinationals and global governance: still a North-South conflict?: Andreas Nölke and Heather Taylor -- Introduction -- Conventional theoretical approaches to (NT)MNCs -- A "modified varieties of capitalism" explanation for the rise of NTMNCs -- Implications for global governance: charting future conflict and cooperation potential -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Business as partner in global governance -- 9. Rethinking multilateralism: global governance and public-private partnerships with the UN: Benedicte Bull -- Introduction -- Public-private partnerships in the United Nations system -- PPPs and multilateralism -- Market multilateralism: legitimacy and authority -- Cases of market multilateralism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10. ISO and the success of regulation through voluntary consensus: Craig N. Murphy and Joanne Yates -- Gaining capacity, building a world market, and expanding scope -- ISO's current structure and operations.

The development and adoption of specific standards: toward a theory of the international standards movement and its impact -- Note -- References -- 11. Beyond the boardroom: "multilocation" and the business face of celebrity diplomacy: Andrew F. Cooper -- Introduction -- In theory and practice -- The expanding world of the celebrity diplomat -- Davos and the "shifting power equation" -- The power of commercial bite: Gates and Soros -- Multilocational images and impact -- Notes -- References -- 12. Variations in corporate norm-entrepreneurship: Why the home state matters: Annegret Flohr, Lothar Rieth, Sandra Schwindenhammer and Klaus Dieter Wolf -- Introduction -- The concept of corporate norm-entrepreneurship -- The puzzle - cross-national variations in corporate norm-entrepreneurship -- Possible explanations -- Business-government relations: an alternative explanation? -- The alternative approach: cooperative versus adversarial business-government relations -- A constructivist explanation: national environments and business identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The volume examines the multiple modes of engagement between business and global governance and the theoretical approaches to analyse them. It presents, compares, and contrasts theoretical perspectives and their associated research agendas along with empirical illustrations.

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