Professional Networks in Transnational Governance

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School. Lasse Folke Henriksen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Politics at the Copenhagen Business School.

• Part I. Frames and Methods: 1. Issue control in transnational professional and organizational networks Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen; 2. In the 'field' of transnational professionals: a post-Bourdieusian approach to transnational legal entrepreneurs Yves Dezalay and Michael Rask Madsen; 3. Studying elite professionals in transnational settings Brooke Harrington 4. Networks and sequences in the study of professionals and organizations Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke; Part II. Professionals and Non-Government Organizations: 5. Contested professionalization in a weak transnational field Ole Jacob Sending; 6. The Ford Foundation: building and domesticating the field of human rights Wendy H. Wong, Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch; 7. Accounting-NGO professional networks: issue control over environmental, social and governance reporting Jason Thistlethwaite; 8. All the trader's men: professionals in international trade policymaking Matthew Eagleton-Pierce; 9. Professional activists on tax transparency Duncan Wigan and Adam Baden; Part III. Professionals and International Organizations: 10. Esteem as professional currency and consolidation: the rise of the macroprudential cognoscenti Andrew Baker; 11. Treating market failure: access professionals in global health Adriana Nilsson; 12. Professions and policy dynamics in the transnational carbon emissions trading network Matthew Paterson, Matthew Hoffman, Michele Betsill and Steven Bernstein; 13. Quasi-professionals in the organization of transnational crisis mapping John Karlsrud and Arthur Mühlen-Schulte; Part IV. Professionals and Market Organisations: 14. Global professional service firms and institutionalization James Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio; 15. Global professional service firms, transnational organizing and core/periphery networks Mehdi Boussebaa; 16. Professional management consultants in transnational governance Bessma Momani; 17. Professional and organizational logics in internet regulation James Perry and David Kempel; 18. Conclusion: issue professionals and transnational organizing Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke.

'On transnational issues as diverse as carbon emissions, flu outbreaks, food security, and human rights, networks of skilled professionals coordinate actions and responses across a welter of competing organizations. This widely distributed, lateral form of influence has been largely unexplored until now. Seabrooke and Henriksen assemble a notable cast of contributors to examine how a new regime of governance is orchestrated through professional networks. This impressive volume provides novel insights into how experts shape global issues and create demand for their expertise.' Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, California