Bargains Old and New: Multinational Corporations in Global Governance

Bargains Old and New: Multinational Corporations in Global Governance

This paper outlines an approach for understanding the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in global governance. We develop a typology of regime types with two dimensions, the goal of the regime, which can be market enabling or regulatory, and the location of authority, which can be national, regional, or international, with public and private elements. MNCs tend to support the creation of...

Global governance: old and new challenges

The current world economic crisis has highlighted a profound challenge to conventional thinking on and approaches to human rights, especially the right to development. Human rights, primarily economic and social rights, are based on a theory of constant expansion of the economic pie for all, and the right to development is explicitly predicated on the idea of the nation State leading the ever-i...

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Multinational Corporations: a New Theoretical Lens

The specificities of multinational corporations (MNCs) have to date not been a focus area of IS research. Extant literature mostly proposes IS configurations for specific types of MNCs, following a static and prescriptive approach. Our research seeks to explain the dynamics of global IS design. It suggests a new theoretical lens for studying global IS design by applying the structural adjustmen...

“OUR RESISTANCE IS AS GLOBAL AS YOUR OPPRESSION” Multinational Corporations, the Protest Movement and the Future of Global Governance

provided helpful comments on the previous version. 2 " Yet, the basic adjustments demanded by the globalization trend cannot take place without a struggle. Too many interests in the nation states see the economic risks and costs of the adjustments involved, even if justified in the longer term, as unfairly distributed and deeply threatening. In addition, organizations with political or social o...