The business of global environmental governance
In: Global environmental accord
In: strategies for sustainability and institutional responses
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In: Global environmental accord
In: strategies for sustainability and institutional responses
In: Environmental politics, Band 32, Heft 5, S. 935-937
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: International affairs, Band 87, Heft 2, S. 479-480
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Review of policy research, Band 28, Heft 5, S. 487-493
ISSN: 1541-1338
In: The American journal of family therapy: AJFT, Band 37, Heft 5, S. 396-413
ISSN: 1521-0383
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 659-678
ISSN: 1461-7323
This article analyses the evolving cultural political economy of climate change by developing the concept of 'climate imaginaries'. These are shared socio-semiotic systems that structure a field around a set of shared understandings of the climate. Climate imaginaries imply a particular mode of organizing production and consumption, and a prioritization of environmental and cultural values. We use this concept to examine the struggle among NGOs, business and state agencies over four core climate imaginaries. These are 'fossil fuels forever', 'climate apocalypse', 'techno-market' and 'sustainable lifestyles'. These imaginaries play a key role in contentions over responses to climate change, and we outline three main episodes in the past two decades: the carbon wars of the 1990s, an emergent carbon compromise between 1998–2008 and a climate impasse from 2009 to the present. However, climate imaginaries only become dominant when they connect with wider popular interests and identities and align with economic and technological aspects of the energy system to constitute 'value regimes'.
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In: Rothenberg, Sandra, and David L. Levy (2012) Corporate Perceptions of Climate Science: The Role of Corporate Environmental Scientists. Business and Society, 51(1): 31-61
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In: Changing Climates in North American Politics, S. 218-240
In: Business and politics: B&P, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 131-150
ISSN: 1469-3569
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 market enabling regimes at the international level, and prefer to keep social or environmental regulation under national or private authority. However, these are only generalizations and MNCs develop preferences based on their relative influence in various arenas, the costs of political participation, and competitive considerations. We argue that institutions of global governance represent the outcome of a series of negotiations among corporations, states, and non-state actors. The preferences and power of MNCs vary across issues and sectors, and from one negotiating forum to another, accounting for the uneven and fragmented nature of the resulting system. Our approach differs from the traditional FDI bargaining framework in that it recognizes the multi-party nature of negotiations and multiple sources of power. Moreover, the complexity and dynamic nature of the process results in a somewhat indeterminate process.
In: Business and Politics, Band 5, S. bibl(s)
In: Business and politics: B&P, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 275-300
ISSN: 1469-3569
MNCs are increasingly facing global environmental issues demanding coordinated market and non-market strategic responses. The home country institutional context and individual company histories can create divergent pressures on strategy for MNCs based in different countries; however, the location of MNCs in global industries and their participation in 'global issues arenas' create issue-level fields within which strategic convergence might also be expected. This paper analyzes the responses of oil MNCs to climate change and finds that local context influenced initial corporate reactions, but that convergent pressures predominate as the issue matures.
In: Politics & society, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 337-361
ISSN: 1552-7514
In: Politics & society, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 337-362
ISSN: 0032-3292
In: The American journal of family therapy: AJFT, Band 40, Heft 4, S. 364-367
ISSN: 1521-0383