Public-private governance interactions

Janina Grabs

Chapter 40 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, 2026, pp 231-238 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The governance of business activities is performed by a wide variety of actors, including public institutions – at subnational, national, and supranational levels – as well as private entities such as businesses themselves, non-governmental organizations, and multi-stakeholder initiatives. In order to assess overall governance effectiveness, it is crucial to understand how such public and private governance actors and institutions engage with and react to one another. Research to date has focused on characterizing and systematizing types, levels, and drivers of such interactions, and applied a variety of social science perspectives to understand why and how they occur, and with what effects. With the return of state-led regulatory ambition in Europe and North America, especially as it pertains to social and environmental impacts of global value chain activities, future work may leverage the comparative dimensions of these developments to produce even more generalizable insights.

Keywords: Public policy; Private governance; Sustainability; Regulatory governance; Global governance; Smart policy mix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035307777
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