The volume combines empirical and legal research to explore the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry.

Examines the potential of self-regulation by transnational industry in areas such as the environment, human health and consumer interests which often escape state-based regulation.

Interdisciplinary in its inception and empirical in its approach, the volume draws primarily from sociology, law, and political science to provide a through-provoking and optimistic story about the emergent potential for self-governance and private ordering to produce systems of rules and norms that increasingly-and explicitly-regulate public goods, in the public interest. The book's value is its explicitly interdisciplinary focus on empirical and legal accounts, attempting to ground governance theory in specific examples. As such, it should have wide appeal.