Global Corporate Power / / ed. by Christopher May.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Amoore, Louise,; Cutler, A. Claire,; Goldman, Ian,; Harrod, Jeff,; Haufler, Virginia,; Huws, Ursula,; Levy, David,; May, Christopher,; McDowell, Stephen D.,; Newell, Peter,; Ougaard, Morten,; Palan, Ronen,; Pegg, Scott,; Webb, Michael C.,
• HerausgeberIn: May, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: International Political Economy Yearbook ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 p.)

Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy, this innovative work addresses three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constrainin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• Part 1. Conceptualizing the Corporation
• 2. The Century of the Corporation
• 3. Making the Modern Multinational
• 4. The Restructuring of Global Value Chains and the Creation of a Cybertariat
• Part 2. Corporations and Global Governance
• 5. Global Governance and the Private Sector
• 6. Shaping International Corporate Taxation
• 7. Commercial Control of Global Electronic Networks
• 8. The Political Economy of the Firm in Global Environmental Governance
• Part 3. Corporate Social Responsibility
• 9. Corporate Citizenship
• 10. Transnational Business Civilization, Corporations, and the Privatization of Global Governance
• 11. Instituting the Power to Do Good?
• 12. World Leaders and Bottom Feeders: Divergent Strategies Toward Social Responsibility and Resource Extraction
• Part 4. Afterword
• 13. Global Corporate Power and the UN Global Compact
• Bibliography
• The Contributors
• Index
• About the Book