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Exploring the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structure of the global political economy, this innovative work addressess three fundamental questions: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the filed of IPE? Does global governance succeed in constraining the power of multinational corporations. To what extent has the movement for corporate social responsibility been fruitful? The authors' rich, detailed contributions-covering topics ranging from environmental governance to control of the internet, from the evolution of legal structures of issues of outsourcing-cogently reestablish the study of the corporation as a central concern for IPE. About Author : Christopher May is professor of political economy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University. His recent publications include A Global Political Economy of Intellectual property Rights: The New Enclosures? and Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History. Contents : Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Conceptualizing the Corporation Part 2 Corporations and Global Governance Part 3 Corporate Social Responsibility Part 4 Afterword Bibliography The Contributors Index About the Book