Strategies, Markets and Governance addresses governance concerns at firm, industry, country and international levels. How do regulatory authorities deal with new business models, organizational structures and blurring market relations? What limits regulatory control and what are the implications of corporate self-regulation? What legitimizes private and public uses of market incentives to monitor executives, manage demand or shift economic risks and what are the responses to latent moral ambiguities? What drives the spread of new regulation and what limits its effectiveness? How can one separate symptoms from root causes of regulatory concerns to determine the direction and viability of necessary change? How does “the organized public” shape political and corporate interests and what is its legitimacy and impact on business? How do local, national and supra-national agendas align or conflict in governing the use of national or common resources, applying shared regulatory standards, or constituting global trade relations? How do corporate strategies turn tighter regulation into profit opportunities, deliver public benefits in the face of predatory states and when is exit the only option left?

The book is organized in five parts. Part I discusses the concepts of strategy, market and governance and offers an analytical framework for assessing their impact on company operations, managerial and regulatory control, agency and political supervision as well as local, national and international policy coordination. Parts II to IV apply this framework to sixteen contributions discussing governance concerns at the level of the firm, the industry, and international policy.