The Role of Business in Global Governance

The Role of Business in Global Governance

Corporations as Norm Enterpreneurs

Annegret Flohr, Lothar Rieth, Sandra Schwindenhammer, Klaus Dieter Wolf

Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan

(expected publication date: early 2010)

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Table of Contents: 

Part 1 - The Research Context                                                                           

Chapter 1:     
Introduction:
Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship and Global Governance               

Chapter 2:
Basic Concepts and Assumptions                                                               

Part II - Causes of Corporate Norm-Entrepreneurship

Chapter 3:
The Social and Political Environment                                                         
3.1 Transnational Transnational Public
3.2 Home State
3.3 The Heterogeneity of Regulatory Environments                                          

Chapter 4:
Actor Characteristics                                                                                  
4.1 Vulnerabilityship
4.2 Ownership Structure
4.3 Corporate Culture                                                                                     

Chapter 5:
Institutional Arrangements                                                                         
5.1 Structural Autonomy 
5.2 Flexibility
5.3 Legitimacy Perceptions                                                                             

Chapter 6:
Comparisons for Conclusions:
Different Paths to Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship                               

Part III – EVALUATING CORPORATE NORM-ENTREPRENEURSHIP                

Chapter 7:
The Effectiveness of Transnational Private Governance                           
7.1 Developing a Conceptual Frame for Analyzing the Effectiveness of Institutions
7.2 Empirical Application
7.3 Comparing the Effectiveness of Self-regulatory Arrangements                    

Chapter 8:
The Legitimacy Potential of Transnational Private Governance              
8.1 A Governance Perspective on the Legitimacy of Corporate Norm-entrepreneurship
8.2 The Legitimacy Potential of Different Types of Corporate Norm-Entrepreneurship                                                                   

Chapter 9:
Towards a New Institutional Architecture for Global Governance:
The Political Role of the Private Sector                                                      
9.1 The Gap between Likely and Meaningful Corporate Contributions to Norm Setting and Norm Development  
9.2 The Constitutional Background of Policy Recommendations 
9.3 General Policy Guidelines
9.4 Policy Recommendations