John Mikler 
The Handbook of Global Companies 

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 Content

List of Illustrations xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Preface xxi

1 Global Companies as Actors in Global Policy and Governance
1

John Mikler

Part I Locating Global Companies 17

2 The Global Company 19

Hinrich Voss

3 The National Identity of Global Companies 35

Stephen Wilks

4 Big Business in the BRICs 53

Andrea Goldstein

Part II Global Companies and Power 75

5 Theorizing the Power of Global Companies 77

Doris Fuchs

6 Why, When, and How Global Companies Get Organized 96

Tony Porter and Sherri Brown

7 How Governments Mediate the Structural Power of International
Business 113

Stephen Bell

8 How Global Companies Wield Their Power: The Discursive Shaping
of Sustainable Development 134

Nina Kolleck

Part III Global Companies and the State 153

9 How Global Companies Make National Regulations 155

Terry O’Callaghan and Vlado Vivoda

10 Making Government More ‘Business-Like’:
Management Consultants as Agents of Isomorphism in Modern Political
Economies 173

Denis Saint-Martin

11 East Asian Development States and Global Companies as
Partners of Techno-Industrial Competitiveness 193

Sung-Young Kim

12 Varieties of the Regulatory State and Global Companies: The
Case of China 209

Shiufai Wong

13 Global Companies and Emerging Market Countries 227

Caner Bakir and Cantay Caliskan

Part IV Global Companies and International Organizations
239

14 Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism 241

Sarianna M. Lundan

15 Global Companies as Agenda Setters in the World Trade
Organization 257

Cornelia Woll

16 Business Interests Shaping International Institutions:
Negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement 272

Deborah Elms

17 Global Companies and the Environment: The Triumph of TNCs in
Global Environmental Governance 285

Matthias Finger

18 Global Companies, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and Global
Inequality 300

Pamela Blackmon

19 Outsourcing Global Governance: Public-Private Voluntary
Initiatives 316

Marianne Thissen-Smits and Patrick Bernhagen

Part V Global Companies and Society 333

20 Global Companies and Global Society: The Evolving Social
Contract 335

Ann Florini

21 Global Companies as Social Actors: Constructing Private
Business in Global Governance 351

Tanja Bru¨hl and Matthias Hofferberth

22 The Socially Embedded Corporation 371

Kate Macdonald

23 Ecological Modernization and Industrial Ecology 388

Frank Boons

Part VI The Exercise and Limitations of Private Global
Governance 403

24 Global Companies as Agents of Globalization 405

Shana M. Starobin

25 The Greening of Capitalism 421

John A. Mathews

26 Global Companies and the Private Regulation of Global Labor
Standards 437

Luc Fransen

27 Global Private Governance: Explaining Initiatives in the
Global Mining Sector 456

Hevina S. Dashwood

28 Will Business Save the World? 474

Simon Zadek

Index 493

About the author

John Mikler is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His research interests are primarily focused on the role of transnational economic actors, particularly multinational corporations, and the interaction between them and states, international organizations and civil society. He is the author of Greening the Car Industry: Varieties of Capitalism and Climate Change (2009), and has published widely in journals including Business and Politics, Regulation and Governance, Global Society, Policy and Society, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, and New Political Economy.