TY - BOOK
T1 - Leveling the Playing Field: Transnational Regulatory Integration and Development
A2 - Bruszt, László
A2 - Gerald, A McDermott
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Emerging market countries face the dual challenge of incorporating transnational regulations into their societies while building their own versions of regulatory capitalism. Will the diffusion of international public and private regulations benefit a few and marginalize the majority in the less developed countries? Or can these regulations foster transnational public-private experiments to improve local regulatory capacities, firm capabilities, and social conditions? What kinds of strategies might facilitate or impede both transnational regulatory integration and local institutional upgrading? How might countries from different regions of the world and firms from different industries learn from one another? This book offers a fresh perspective in reconciling the seemingly incompatible goals of transnational integration and development. It offers a new analytical framework and a set of case studies that helps forge (a) a comparative analysis of integration and development and (b) the identification of the mechanisms that can foster both lasting transnational integration settlements and broad-based domestic institutional and economic upgrading. It draws on current research from leading scholars across the disciplines who analyze these issues in a variety of regions around the world and in industries and domains ranging from food safety, manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, as well as labour and environmental rights. The chapters reveal concrete lessons for scholars and practitioners about the different roles and strategies that governments, the multilaterals, firms, and NGOs can take to facilitate the integration of international standards, improve domestic institutions, and expand the benefits to a great variety of local groups.
AB - Emerging market countries face the dual challenge of incorporating transnational regulations into their societies while building their own versions of regulatory capitalism. Will the diffusion of international public and private regulations benefit a few and marginalize the majority in the less developed countries? Or can these regulations foster transnational public-private experiments to improve local regulatory capacities, firm capabilities, and social conditions? What kinds of strategies might facilitate or impede both transnational regulatory integration and local institutional upgrading? How might countries from different regions of the world and firms from different industries learn from one another? This book offers a fresh perspective in reconciling the seemingly incompatible goals of transnational integration and development. It offers a new analytical framework and a set of case studies that helps forge (a) a comparative analysis of integration and development and (b) the identification of the mechanisms that can foster both lasting transnational integration settlements and broad-based domestic institutional and economic upgrading. It draws on current research from leading scholars across the disciplines who analyze these issues in a variety of regions around the world and in industries and domains ranging from food safety, manufacturing, telecommunications, finance, as well as labour and environmental rights. The chapters reveal concrete lessons for scholars and practitioners about the different roles and strategies that governments, the multilaterals, firms, and NGOs can take to facilitate the integration of international standards, improve domestic institutions, and expand the benefits to a great variety of local groups.
U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703143.001.0001
DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703143.001.0001
M3 - Book
SN - 0198703147
BT - Leveling the Playing Field: Transnational Regulatory Integration and Development
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -