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The Power of Standards : Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services /

Standards often remain unseen, yet they play a fundamental part in the organisation of contemporary capitalism and society at large. What form of power do they epitomise? Why have they become so prominent? Are they set to be as important for the globalisation of services as for manufactured goods? G...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Graz, Jean-Christophe (Author)
Corporate Authors: Cambridge Open Access - York University, Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
International relations > Politics and government.
Economics > Politics and government.
International relations.
Relations internationales.
international relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The rise of transnational hybrid authority: a primer; 2. Service offshoring: the new frontier of globalisation; 3. Standards as regulation; 4. Doubling security: prudential standards for insurance regulation; 5. Standards to create new insurance markets; 6. The world office; 7. Standards and business process outsourcing in India; Conclusions.