General Introduction

  • Business, Authority and Power in the 21st Century
  • United Nations and Global Business Partnership
  • International Organizations and Business
  • Private Sector, Business and Development

Diffusion of Authority and Power

  • Globalization and Market Economy
  • Diffusion of Authority and Power
  • Devolution, Transfer of Roles, Delegation
  • Emergence of the Notion of Private Authority and Power
  • Governance of Authority and Power in Public and Private, International and Transnational Spheres

Regulation and Business

  • United Nations and the Production of Voluntary Standards, Principles and Codes of Conduct: Business and Human Rights
  • Private Sector Incursion into Deregulation-Regulation Policies: Private Regulatory Bodies, Independent Private Authorities
  • Private Sector: Policy Makers, Standard Setters, Law Makers
  • Standard Entrepreneurs: Concept, Roles and Practices of Public and Private Actors

Business as Provider of Public Services

  • Business and the Production of Global Public Goods
  • Global Initiatives in the Production of Goods and Services
  • Private Actors as Operators and Service Providers in Public Markets

Business and Partnership

  • Global Partnership and Global Development: Concept, Rhetoric, Instrumentalization
  • PPP Public-Private Partnership
  • IGOs – Intergovernmental Organizations, Business and Partnership
  • Global Partnership: EU, G7, G20
  • Commonwealth and the ACP Countries (Africa, Caribbean and Pacific): Business and Partnership
  • Economic Partnership Agreement, EPAs between ECOWAS and the EU
  • Africa: NEPAD, New Partnership for Africa’s Development
  • Latin America, LAC Latin America and the Caribbean: Business Partnership and Development
  • Asia, Partnership and International Organizations
  • Business, Emerging Economies and Partnership: China, Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa

Emergence of New Institutional Structures of Authority and Power

Emergence of Actors in Global Development: Global Business Coalition, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum IBLF, World Economic Forum, the Business Humanitarian Forum Geneva, World Water Council, World Resources Institute, World Council for Corporate Governance, the Global Reporting Initiative GRI, International Organization for Standardization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN, Transparency International, Clinton Foundation, Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation…