Transnational Communities: Shaping Global Economic Governance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107406162)

Transnational communities are social groups that emerge from mutual interaction across national boundaries, oriented around a common project or 'imagined' identity. This common project or identity is constructed and sustained through the active engagement and involvement of at least some of its members. Such communities can overlap in different ways with formal organizations but, in principle, they do not need formal organization to be sustained. This book explores the role of transnational communities in relation to the governance of business and economic activity. It does so by focusing on a wide range of empirical terrains, including discussions of the Laleli market in Istanbul, the institutionalization of private equity in Japan, the transnational movement for open content licenses, and the mobilization around environmental certification. These studies show that transnational communities can align the cognitive and normative orientations of their members over time and thereby influence emergent transnational governance arrangements.

Author: Marie-Laure Djelic
ISBN-10: 1107406161
ISBN-13: 9781107406162
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2012
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.90d