The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance.

Offers new insights into the role of global companies in relation to policy and governance at local, national, and international levels
Brings together newly-commissioned research by a global team of established and up-and-coming scholars from the fields of international relations, political science, public policy, and beyond
Considers the environmental and societal responsibilities of global corporations.
Covers topics including the spatial locations of global companies; debate about the power they wield and their role as catalysts in new forms of governance; and the ways in which global companies share authority with the state and international organizations to drive policy processes
Speculates on the broader potential and limitations of global governance 

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Preface xxi
1. Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance / John Mikler 1
pt. I Locating Global Companies 17
2. The Global Company / Hinrich Voss 19
3. The National Identity of Global Companies / Stephen Wilks 35
4. Big Business in the BRICs / Andrea Goldstein 53
pt. II Global Companies and Power 75
5. Theorizing the Power of Global Companies / Doris Fuchs 77
6. Why, When, and How Global Companies Get Organized / Sherri Brown 96
7. How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International Business / Stephen Bell 113
8. How Global Companies Wield Their Power: The Discursive Shaping of Sustainable Development / Nina Kolleck 134
pt. III Global Companies and the State 153
9. How Global Companies Make National Regulations / Vlado Vivoda 155
10. Making Government More "Business-Like": Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political Economies / Denis Saint-Martin 173
11. East Asian Development States and Global Companies as Partners of Techno-Industrial Competitiveness / Sung-Young Kim 193
12. Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The Case of China / Shiufai Wong 209
13. Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries / Cantay Caliskan 227
pt. IV Global Companies and International Organizations 239
14. Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism / Sarianna M. Lundan 241
15. Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade Organization / Cornelia Woll 257
16. Business Interests Shaping International Institutions: Negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement / Deborah Elms 272
17. Global Companies and the Environment: The Triumph of TNCs in Global Environmental Governance / Matthias Finger 285
18. Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and Global Inequality / Pamela Blackmon 300
19. Outsourcing Global Governance: Public-Private Voluntary Initiatives / Patrick Bernhagen 316
pt. V Global Companies and Society 333
20. Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social Contract / Ann Florini 335
21. Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private Business in Global Governance / Matthias Hofferberth 351
22. The Socially Embedded Corporation / Kate Macdonald 371
23. Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology / Frank Boons 388
pt. VI The Exercise and Limitations of Private Global Governance 403
24. Global Companies as Agents of Globalization / Shana M. Starobin 405
25. The Greening of Capitalism / John A. Mathews 421
26. Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labor Standards / Luc Fransen 437
27. Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the Global Mining Sector / Hevina S. Dashwood 456
28. Will Business Save the World? / Simon Zadek 474
Index 493