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Transnational communities : shaping global economic governance
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ISBN: 9780511901812 051190181X 0521518784 9780521518789 9780511778100 0511778104 9781107406162 1107406161 1107207053 1139084070 1282733699 9786612733697 051190102X 0511798660 0511797265 0511900236 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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