Includes references and index.

Contents: Introduction: A world of governance: The rise of transnational regulation -- Institutional forces -- Scientization: Making a world safe for organizing -- Marketization: From intellectual agenda to global policy-making -- Organizing the world -- The Rationalization of virtue and virtuosity in world society -- Soft regulation and global democracy -- A Dynamic transnational topography: Transnational actors, transnational institutions, transnational spaces: The role of law firms in the internationalization of competition regulation -- Global enterprises in fields of governance -- The Transnational governance network of central bankers -- Regulated regulations: Global trends of state transformation -- The Rationalization of universities -- Transnational governance in the making: Dynamics of soft regulations -- Contested rules and shifting boundaries: International standard-setting in accounting -- The International competition network: Moving towards transnational governance -- The emergence of an European regulatory field of management education -- Market creation and transnational rule-making: The case of C02 emissions trading -- Transnational NGO certification programs as new regulatory forms: Lessons from the forestry sector -- Institutional dynamics in a re-ordering world.