This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a 'tripartite standards
regime'(TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development …

Regulatory reforms have won immense global popularity and are widely pervasive across
regions, countries, and sectors. The advance of the reforms, and consequently of the new …

Globalization has heightened interest in global standards. Such standards address a wide
range of issues from labour conditions, health and safety norms, quality management …

Combining bold theortical analysis and careful empirical investigation Harris provides a
critical framework to understand the political and economic underpinnings of globalization …

International standards are a lubricant for global trade. They govern the interplay of things
like screw threads, smart cards or freight containers, thereby reducing the costs and hassles …

AT THE START OF this project, I participated in two events that offered contrasting narratives
about the regulation of the global economy. This book has been, in part, an attempt to …

A reading of globalization at the start of the twenty-first century needs to reconsider such
concepts as stateness, sovereignty, governance, efficiency, and social justice. I undertake …

This article seeks to contribute to opening up a space of possibility for the state to become
something other than a competitive entity in and through a critical (re) problematisation of …

Voluntary-based corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies have become a
fashionable response of the business community and international organizations to the …

Globalisation, with all of its uncertainties and inadequacies as a term, does usefully call
attention to a series of developments associated with the ongoing dynamic of economic …