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8 Regul. & Governance 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/rgulangnce8 and id is 1 raw text is: Regulation & Governance (2014) 8, 1-21 Transnational business governance interactions: Conceptualization and framework for analysis Burkard Eberlein Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Kenneth W. Abbott Sandra Day O'Connor, College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Julia Black Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK Errol Meidinger SUNY Buffalo Law School, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA Stepan Wood Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Abstract This special issue demonstrates the importance of interactions in transnational business governance. The number of schemes applying non-state authority to govern business conduct across borders has vastly expanded in numerous issue areas. As these initiatives proliferate, they increasingly interact with one another and with state-based regimes. The key challenge is to understand the implications of these interactions for regulatory capacity and performance, and ultimately for social and environmental impact. In this introduction, we propose an analytical framework for the study of transnational business governance interactions. The framework disaggregates the regulatory process to identify potential points of interaction, and suggests analytical questions that probe the key features of interactions at each point. Keywords: global business, interactions, non-state authority, regulatory process, transnational governance. 1. Introduction An increasing portion of business regulation emanates not from conventional state and inter- state institutions, but from an array of private sector, civil society, multi-stakeholder and hybrid public-private institutions operating in a dynamic, transnational regulatory space. Correspondence: Burkard Eberlein, Schulich School of Business, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3. Email: beberlein@schulich.yorku.ca Accepted for publication 26 May 2013. © 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd doi:10.1111 /rego.12030