The constitutionalization of the global corporate sphere? / Grahame F. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Grahame F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International business enterprises--Government policy.

International business enterprises.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work discusses governance, law, and constitutional matters in the context of international corporate constitutional governance. It examines how and why the business world commercial relations, and company activities have increasingly become subject to legal and constitutional forms of regulation and governance.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Acronyms; 1. Setting the Scene; 1.1. Corporate Disquiet and Uncertainty; 1.2. Sources of Corporate Vulnerabilities and Nervousness; 1.3. Responses; 1.4. The Book in Outline; 1.5. Chapter Titles and Brief Descriptions of Their Contents; 2. The Contours of Constitutionalization; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Constitutionality; 2.3. Constitutionalism and Constitutionalization; 2.4. Forms of Constitutionalization; 2.5. The Law and Juridicalization; 2.6. Why Global Corporate Constitutionalization Now?; Appendix

3. Global Corporate Citizenship Examined3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The Corporation in 'International Law'; 3.3. Corporate Social Responsibility: Setting up the Issues; 3.4. What is Different about Corporate Citizenship?; 3.5. Features of Citizenship and Civic Virtue; 3.6. CSR/GCC Trends and Characteristics; 3.7. The Extent of Corporate Citizenship Claims; 3.8. What Kind of Citizenship is Being Claimed by Companies?; 3.9. Corporations and Moral Personhood; 3.10. How is Corporate Citizenship Being 'Made'?; 3.11. The 'Good Corporate Citizen'

3.12. Classifying Companies in Relationship to Global Corporate Citizenship3.13. Conclusions; Appendix; 4. The Politics of the 'Citizenly Company' and Global Corporate Governance Reform; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Positioning Companies; 4.3. Evaluating and Verifying Citizenly Claims: Codes of Conduct and Standards; 4.4. BP as a Counter Example?; 4.5. Human Rights and Corporate Citizenship; 4.6. Debates about Ownership and Control of the Modern Corporation; 4.7. Increasing Internal Democratic Corporate Accountability; 4.8. Conclusions

5. Global Administrative Law, the OECD, and International Investment5.1 Introduction; 5.2. What is Global Administrative Law?; 5.3 The OECD as an Agent of GAL; 5.4. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) as Instruments of GAL; 5.5 The Development of BITs and the Rule of International Administrative Law; 5.6. Conclusions; 6. Consequences of Quasi-Constitutionalization for the Global Regulatory Agenda and the Fate of the Rule of Law; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Summarizing Some Important Points: Constitutionalization and its Meaning; 6.3. Role of Law and Rule of Law in the International Realm

6.4. Current Developments in International Corporate Governance Supporting the RoL6.5. The Possibility of Introducing More Formal Constitutional Principles into Debates about Corporate Quasi-Constitutionalization; 6.6. Examining the Framework for a Global Corporate Constitutional Order; 6.7. Where Does this Finally Leave Us?; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-164136-7

1-283-84781-7

OCLC:

922971607