Global Business Regulation

This book assesses business regulation in the context of globalisation and policy-making.

John Braithwaite (Author), Peter Drahos (Author)

9780521784993, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 February 2000

724 pages, 9 b/w illus. 3 tables
24.6 x 18.9 x 3.7 cm, 1.27 kg

'I find it a work of outstanding scholarship with an engaging tone, peppered with amusing turns of phrase and observations.' Peter Standish, Swinburne University of Technology

Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, the OECD, IMF, Moody's and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals. The authors argue that effective and decent global regulation depends on the determination of individuals to engage with powerful agendas and decision-making bodies that would otherwise be dominated by concentrated economic interests. This book will become a standard reference for readers in business, law, politics and international relations.

Part I. Introduction: 1. The historical canvas
2. Globalization and regulation
3. Method
4. Concepts: mechanisms, principles and actors
5. Conclusions
6. The struggle for a sovereignty of the people
Part II. Cases: 7. Property and contract
8. Financial regulation
9. Corporations and securities
10. Trade and competition
11. Labour standards
12. The environment
13. Nuclear energy
14. Telecommunications
15. Drugs
16. Food
17. Sea transport
18. Road transport
19. Air transport
Part III. Analysis: 20. Contests of actors
21. Contests of principles
22. Mechanisms of globalization
23. Regulatory webs and globalization sequences
24. Forum-shifting and contests of principles
25. Modelling, globalization and the politics of empowerment
26. A political program for sovereignty over global regulation.

Subject Areas: International communications & telecommunications law [LBDT], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Postal & telecommunications industries [KNTT], Transport industries [KNG], Pharmaceutical industries [KNDP], Food manufacturing & related industries [KNDF], Nuclear power industries [KNBN], International economics [KCL], Globalization [JFFS]