Glocal Capitalist Class

How Same-Nation Interlocks Facilitate Transnational Corporate Political Unity in Global Environmental Politics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3176038
AutoresRami Kaplan (0000-0002-0189-8348, The Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Labor Studies Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv‐Yafo Israel, autor de correspondencia), E A Marantz (0000-0002-6422-9109, The Department of Sociology and Anthropology Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv‐Yafo Israel)
Año2025
Volumen25
Número1
Fecha de publicación2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12522
OpenAlexW4406602484
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas66

Elite theorists assume that transnational capitalist class unity is facilitated through transnational elite spaces and networks. We argue for a more glocal notion of transnational unification that highlights the role of same-nation networks of interlocking directorates linking major transnational corporations (TNCs) in disseminating corporate political behaviours on a global scale. The same-nation elite networks are effective mechanisms of transnational unity because their members, whom we call 'glocal interlockers', are at once socialized into the global system and influential figures in their national TNC communities. Empirically, we analyze how interlocking directorates among the world's largest 189 TNCs facilitated the worldwide adoption of private environmental practices in the period 2006-2013, in the context of TNCs' mobilization to preempt an intergovernmental regulatory regime on climate change by promoting a global governance privatization agenda. We find that firms' level of centrality in glocal interlocks networks explained their levels of private environmental practices adoption, while their centrality in the transnational inner circle of cross-border interlockers did not. These results suggest that the persistence of local elite formations can enable rather than hinder transnational corporate unity

Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Globalization · Glocalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Social and Cultural Dynamics