Transnational Corporations and Global Governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Bartley (0000-0002-0049-0607, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 145-165 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Sociology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-0572 • E-ISSN: 1545-2115 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053540 |
| OpenAlex | W2804498198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 38 |
| References cited | 126 |
Scholars and critics often lament that corporations rule the world, but predominant accounts of global governance imply almost the opposite: With theories populated by national governments and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, it might appear that nearly everyone except corporations writes the rules that govern across borders. This article compiles research on the varied ways in which multinational and transnational corporations have shaped global governance, drawing attention to the contours and limits of corporate power. Corporations can be seen variously as sponsors, inhibitors, and direct providers of global governance. They have, for example, been sponsors of neoliberal trade rules, inhibitors of some labor and environmental regimes, and providers of private standards for finance, safety, sustainability, and human rights. Scholars may be tempted to focus on just one of these roles or to presume unified corporate dominance, but it is important to grapple with all three and to investigate the conditions under which corporate actions are more or less unified and decisive
Business · Corporate governance · Dominance (genetics · Economics · Global governance · Human rights · Lament · Law and economics · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Political Economy and Marxism · Finance · Law
Free Traders
Polycentrism
Rights without remedy
Analyzing values-based modes of production and consumption
Beyond the nation-state
Industrial policy, green challenges, and international business
Profit shifting from Nigeria to Europe
Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
Governing synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs
The Role of Labour Market Intermediaries for Migrant Workers in Global Production Networks
Conflicto, territorio y extractivismo en Chile. Aportes y límites de la producción académica reciente
Finance in Sustainable Transition
Ritualism and beyond
From cheap ethane to a plastic planet
Petrochemical transition narratives
Philanthrocapitalism and the Separation of Powers
Future-Proofing Capitalism
Transnational Private Actors Shaping the Policy and Practice of Child Institutionalisation
Have Faith in Business
Excluding through inclusion
How data-driven, privately ordered sustainability governance shapes US food supply chains
Financialization goes South
Liberal Environmentalism
Projecting ambiguity in transnational environmental governance
Risky climate
Aspiring rule-makers
The emergence of Chinese high- and new-technology companies in the global arena
The politics of supply chain regulations
Private regulatory capture via harmonization
Exploring the formal and informal roles of regulatory intermediaries in transnational multistakeholder regulation
Standardising policy in a nonstandard way
Legal crime
Interpreters of International Economic Law
Refining Reflexive Environmental Law by Nature and Nurture
Glocal Capitalist Class
Advancing global and transnational approaches to the study of out-of-home childcare
Subnational Environmental Policy
The business-class case for corporate social responsibility
Contestants, Profiteers, and the Political Dynamics of Marketization
The Origins of Global Humanitarianism
Private Power, Public Law
Forging Industrial Policy
Transnational Governance
Firm Interests
Caring Capitalism
Constructing World Culture
Rules without Rights
The New Global Rulers
Why the World Suddenly Cares About Global Supply Chains
The Politics of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
The New Masters of Capital
Fair Trade
Governance in a Global Economy
Varieties of Capitalism
The Road from Mont Pèlerin
The Market Makers
Looking behind the Label
Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
The making of a transnational capitalist class
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Organized Climate Change Denial
The New Politics of Linkage
A Review of Private Regulation
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior
Governing Oligopolies
Transnational Public-Private Partnerships as Learning Facilitators
The Globalization of Carbon Trading
Time for a reality check
Contextualising compliance
Transnational Class Agency and European Governance
Outsourcing governance
Club governance and the making of global financial rules
The governance of global wealth chains
The governance of global value chains
Governing the market in a globalizing era
Protecting “First world” markets and “Third world” nature
Economic Development without Pre-Requisites
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee
Fairtrade labour certification
Weak Coffee
The NGO-Industrial Complex
Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Economic Knowledge
The Global Economy as Instituted Process
The Poverty of Deductivism
Corporate Mobilization and Political Power
Codes in context
Gorillas in the closet? Public and private actors in the enforcement of transnational private regulation
The Regime Complex for Climate Change
Rethinking Global Governance? Complexity, Authority, Power, Change
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
The New Politics of Interdependence
Constrain-Thy-Neighbor Effects as a Determinant of Transnational Interest Group Cohesion
Contested imaginaries and the cultural political economy of climate change
Private Global Business Regulation
Preferences for Processes
The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s
Income Inequality, Development, and Dependence
Corporate Social Responsibility and institutional theory
Foreign Capital Dependence and Development
A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics
From uncertainty toward risk
Reassessing Economic Dependency and Uneven Development
Inequality in the World Polity
Law, expertise and legitimacy in transnational economic governance
Finance on Trial
Scientizing Food Safety
Between Self-Regulation and the Alien Tort Claims Act
Constructing Virtual Justice in the Global Arena
Governance in a Partially Globalized World
Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights
Power and Relation in the World Polity
New! Improved? The Transformation of the Global Agrifood System
Foreign Investment Dependence and the Environment
The Class Embeddedness of Corporate Political Action
The Global Corporate Elite and the Transnational Policy-Planning Network, 1996-2006
Yes, There Is a (Growing) Transnational Business Community
Regulation in the Process of Building Capabilities
Corporate Social Responsibility and Freedom of Association Rights
Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association
The Arc of Neoliberalism
The Political Mobilization of Firms and Industries
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Interlock Globally, Act Domestically
Economists, Capitalists, and the Making of Globalization
The Structural Sources of Association
Targeting Capital
Institutional Emergence in an Era of Globalization
The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed
Growth Effects of Foreign and Domestic Investment
Social theory and globalization
Theorizing business power in the semiperiphery
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |