The challenges of global business authority
Subtitle: democratic renewal, stalemate, or decay?
By: edited by Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit.
Contributors: Porter, Tony, 1953-; Ronit, Karsten.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781438431574
Subjects: International business enterprises -- Management; International finance; International cooperation; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization and business authority : new modes of democratic policy-making? / Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit; title: Private authority certification regimes : a club theory perspective / Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski; title: The democratic legitimacy of private authority in the food chain / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni; title: Power, interests, and the United Nations global compact / Jackie Smith; title: Business authority and global financial governance : challenges to accountability and legitimacy / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang; title: Business and democracy? : pharmaceutical firms, intellectual property, and developing countries / Susan K. Sell; title: The corruption of the public interest : intellectual property and the corporation as a rights holding 'citizen' / Christopher May; title: Regulatory architectures for a global democracy : on democratic varieties of regulatory capitalism / David Levi-Faur; title: Democratic accountability in global governance : business and civil society in multiple arenas / Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy; title: Sovereign debt restructuring : alliances crossing the financial services industry, states, and non-governmental organizations / Kathryn C. Lavelle; title: The complexities of global business authority and the promise of democracy / Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit.