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8 Regul. & Governance 1 (2014)

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Regulation & Governance (2014) 8, 1-21


Transnational business governance interactions:

Conceptualization and framework for analysis

Burkard   Eberlein
Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kenneth W. Abbott
Sandra Day O'Connor, College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

Julia Black
Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Errol Meidinger
SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

Stepan   Wood
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada




Abstract
This special issue demonstrates the importance of interactions in transnational business governance. The
number  of schemes applying non-state authority to govern business conduct across borders has vastly
expanded in numerous  issue areas. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one
another and with state-based regimes. The key challenge is to understand the implications of these
interactions for regulatory capacity and performance, and ultimately for social and environmental impact.
In this introduction, we propose an analytical framework for the study of transnational business
governance interactions. The framework disaggregates the regulatory process to identify potential
points of interaction, and suggests analytical questions that probe the key features of interactions at each
point.

Keywords:  global business, interactions, non-state authority, regulatory process, transnational
governance.





1. Introduction

An  increasing portion of business regulation emanates not from  conventional state and inter-
state institutions, but from an  array of private sector, civil society, multi-stakeholder and
hybrid  public-private institutions operating in a  dynamic,  transnational regulatory space.





   Correspondence: Burkard Eberlein, Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. Email: beberlein@schulich.yorku.ca
   Accepted for publication 26 May 2013.


© 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd


doi:10.1111 /rego.12030

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