Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- 1 Introduction: A world of governance: The rise of transnational regulation
- I Institutional forces
- II A dynamic transnational topography
- III Transnational governance in the making
- 12 Dynamics of soft regulations
- 13 Contested rules and shifting boundaries: International standard-setting in accounting
- 14 The international competition network: Moving towards transnational governance
- 15 The emergence of a European regulatory field of management education
- 16 Market creation and transnational rule-making: The case of CO2 emissions trading
- 17 Transnational NGO certification programs as new regulatory forms: Lessons from the forestry sector
- 18 Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world
- References
- Index
18 - Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of acronyms
- 1 Introduction: A world of governance: The rise of transnational regulation
- I Institutional forces
- II A dynamic transnational topography
- III Transnational governance in the making
- 12 Dynamics of soft regulations
- 13 Contested rules and shifting boundaries: International standard-setting in accounting
- 14 The international competition network: Moving towards transnational governance
- 15 The emergence of a European regulatory field of management education
- 16 Market creation and transnational rule-making: The case of CO2 emissions trading
- 17 Transnational NGO certification programs as new regulatory forms: Lessons from the forestry sector
- 18 Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The chapters in this volume point to a profound re-definition of structuring frames for action and of normative and cognitive reference sets. In other words, all chapters, individually and as a whole, document significant institutional transformation. The transnationalization of our world, sometimes hastily labeled “globalization,” is not only – indeed, far from it – about flows of goods, capital or people. Nor is transnationalization simply a discourse even though it does have important discursive dimensions. Our transnationalizing world is a re-ordering world, a world where institutional rules of the game are in serious transition. Furthermore, the chapters in this volume clearly suggest – and many mundane contemporary experiences confirm it – that the impact of re-ordering processes is significant and consequential for our everyday lives.
Rather than focusing on impact, though, this volume wanted to contribute to our understanding of transformation processes. How are new modes of governance – rules and regulations and the organizing and monitoring activities that sustain, reproduce and control them – shaped and how do they come about? A defining theme for this volume has been the genesis and stabilization of transnational governance. We have applied a revisited field perspective to approach this theme. We understand transnational fields to be complex combinations of institutional forces, spatial and relational topographies and propose that those three dimensions are constitutive of transnational governance.
As a consequence, we have considered transnational governance in the making from three complementary angles.
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- Transnational GovernanceInstitutional Dynamics of Regulation, pp. 375 - 397Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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