Providing critical discussion of their global and domestic power, and highlighting the ways in which corporations interact with each other and with their socio-political environment, this Handbook presents a thorough and up-to-date overview of the main debates around the role of corporations in the global political economy.

Contents: 1. The delusion of the global corporation: Introduction to the Handbook Christian May and Andreas Nölke PART I THE CORPORATION AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS 2. Corporate governance and accountability Antoine Rebérioux and Gwenaël Roudaut 3. Interlocking directorates and corporate networks J.P. Sapinski and William K. Carroll 4. Labour in the corporation: the political economy of capital versus the political economy of labour Matthias Ebenau 5. Worker co-operatives and other alternative forms of business organization Sanjay Pinto 6. Corporations, gender equality and women’s empowerment: feminism co-opted? Catia Gregoratti, Adrienne Roberts and Sofie Tornhill 7. The state and public corporations Judith Clifton and Daniel Díaz-Fuentes 8. Corruption, organizational deviance and corporate compliance Markus Pohlmann and Julian Klinkhammer PART II DOMESTIC INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDING OF THE CORPORATION 9. The company in Western business systems and national varieties of advanced capitalism Sandra Eckert 10. The institutional embeddedness of transnational corporations: dependent capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe Vera Šćepanović and Dorothee Bohle 11. Asian business systems Michael A. Witt 12. Natural resource corporations and patrimonial capitalism: Russia and the Arab region Alexandra Dienes (née Vasileva) 13. Social embedding of the corporation: family conglomerates around the world Diego Finchelstein 14. The varying role of the state in the making of Latin American multinationals Moisés V. Balestro 15. Affirmative action and corporate development in Malaysia and South Africa Hwok-Aun Lee and Lumkile Mondi PART III CROSS-BORDER INVESTMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS 16. Multinational enterprises: theories, practices, effects and policies Filip de Beule and Andreja Jaklič 17. Power relations within multinational corporations Glenn Morgan 18. Host State Bargaining with Multinationals Caner Bakir and Judith Woods 19. The corporation and violent conflict: perspectives, policy responses and future trends Brian Ganson and Achim Wennmann 20. The international regime for investment: a history of failed multilateralism Tarald Laudal Berge and Helge Hveem 21. The African corporation, ‘Africapitalism’ and regional integration in Africa Okechukwu C. Iheduru PART IV THE CORPORATION AS A GLOBAL PLAYER 22. The corporation as an institution of global governance Christopher May 23. Corporations and global standards of corporate social responsibility Daniel Kinderman 24. The modern financial corporation and global policy Kevin Young 25. Corporations and global trade policy-making in the twenty-first century Jappe Eckhardt 26. Value chains and the world economy: genealogies and reformulations Liam Campling and Benjamin Selwyn 27. The power of corporations in global food sector governance Tobias Gumbert and Doris Fuchs 28. Global corporations and the governance of standards Jean-Christophe Graz Index