附註:Papers initiated from a workshop in San Diego in 1996 and a conference at the University of Victoria (B.C.) the following August.
Private authority and international affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter -- Lost in (cyber)space: the private rules of online commerce / Debora L. Spar -- Private and public management of international mineral markets / Michael C. Webb -- The standards regime for communication and information technologies / Liora Salter -- Strategic partnerships, knowledge-based networked oligopolies, and the state / Lynn K. Mytelka and Michel Delapierre -- Bond-rating agencies and coordination in the global political economy / Timothy J. Sinclair -- Multinational corporations as agents of change: the globalization of intellectual property rights / Susan K. Sell -- Self-regulation and business norms: political risk, political activism / Virginia Haufler -- Embedded private authority: multinational enterprises and the Amazonian indigenous peoples movement in Ecuador / Pamela L. Burke -- Hegemony and the private governance of international industries / Tony Porter -- Private authority in international trade relations: the case of maritime transport / A. Claire Cutler -- The contours and significance of private authority in international affairs / A. Claire Cutler, Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
摘要:"Governments today are too often unwilling to intervene in global commerce, and international organizations are too often unable to govern effectively. In their place, firms increasingly cooperate internationally to establish the rules and standards of behavior for themselves and for others, taking on the mantle of authority to govern specific issue areas. Are they stepping into the breach to supply needed collective goods? Or are they organizing themselves in order to prevent governments from interfering in their business? This book explores the meaning of this private international authority, both for theory and policy, through case studies of specific industries, associations, and issue areas in both contemporary and historical perspective."--Jacket.
