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The Next Step in Governance: The Need for Global Micro-Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Expanding International Production
Research in Global Strategic Management (2016)
  • Karl P. Sauvant
Abstract
Explicit barriers to international trade, investment, technology, and financial flows have been reduced considerably. As a result, “macro-liberalization” of international economic transactions has largely run its course. Now, attention needs to shift from international rules for governments to international rules dealing with the various aspects of the international operations of firms – what are called “micro-issues” in this chapter; these include, by way of example, cross-border mergers and acquisitions and international bankruptcies. Such international rules for the principal actors in international production and markets would complement (or replace) the unilateral rules that exist at the national level. International rules would set the direct parameters for certain aspects of the international activities of firms and hence provide the global governance for operating in the global production and trading spaces. This chapter exemplifies for a number of areas the state of rule-making for some micro issues, analyses the nature of this rule-making and suggests a way forward. Developing international micro-regulatory frameworks of rules of the road for the various aspects of the international operations of firms in the globalizing world economy should be the new frontier of international commercial diplomacy.

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Publication Date
July, 2016
Citation Information
Karl P. Sauvant, “The Next Step in Governance: The Need for Global Micro-Regulatory Frameworks in the Context of Expanding International Production,” in T. C. Ambos, B. Ambos and J. Birkinshaw, eds., Perspectives on Headquarters – Subsidiary Relationships in the Contemporary MNC, in a section on “Additional Contributions by AIB Fellows,” edited by Jean Boddewyn (Bingley, UK: Emerald, forthcoming 2016), ch. 15.