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Author : University of Toronto Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0802085024
Author : Sarah Anderson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437902518
This study examines the economic and political power of the world¿s top 200 corporations in 2000. Led by General Motors, these are the firms that are driving the process of corporate globalization and arguably benefiting the most from it. The report then examines the extent to which these firms are providing what is good for the country and global society in general. It concludes that widespread trade and investment liberalization have contributed to a climate in which dominant corporations are enjoying increasing levels of economic and political clout that are out of balance with the tangible benefits they provide to society. The study reinforces a strong public distrust of the economic and political power of corporations. Charts and tables.
Author : William K. Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Corporate power
ISBN : 0195438310
Winner of the Porter Prize, this classic study thoroughly profiles the corporate elite of late twentieth-century Canada, within a global context. It traces the fundamental changes in the structure of corporate power in Canada since the mid-1970s and highlights such key issues as the place of Canadian corporate power in global context, the westward shift of Canadian corporate power, and the emergence of a North American corporate elite. Corporate Power in a Globalizing World opens with a survey of corporate power and discusses the evolution from oligarchy to corporate governance. The majority of the chapters then profile what the author calls "particularities of time and place"--for example, corporate organization and "disorganized capitalism," strategic alignments, the westward shift, continental connections, the evolution of a North American corporate elite, and the Canadian corporate elite in the context of global power structures. The final segment highlights corporate and university governance in the era of neoliberalism and the consolidation of a neoliberal policy bloc. A new foreword brings the book completely up to date.
Author : Ronald W. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415781961
This book examines the manifestations of corporate power in US foreign policy and the global economy over the past thirty years, culminating in an assessment of the implications of greater concentrations of wealth and power for democracy, both in the US and abroad.
Author : Stephen Wilks
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849807326
The large business corporation has become a governing institution in national and global politics. This study offers a critical account of its political dominance and lack of democratic legitimacy.
Author : Christopher May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 158826971X
Author : Peter A. Gourevitch,James Shinn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400837014
Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.
Author : John Mikler,Karsten Ronit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789903232
This authoritative book examines the power of multinational corporations (MNCs) to exert influence in global politics. Focusing on the actions and motivations of MNCs, it explores how they attempt to shape the political issues that affect them.
Author : John Mikler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745698496
We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization. In this book, John Mikler re-casts global corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies. Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail. We know the global corporations' names, we know where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.
Author : William K. Carroll,J.P. Sapinski
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773630816
Canada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling the large corporations at the core of the economy. But corporate power also reaches into civil society and politics in many ways that greatly constrain democracy. In Organizing the 1%, William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski provide a unique, evidence-based perspective on corporate power in Canada and illustrate the various ways it directs and shapes economic, political and cultural life. A highly accessible introduction to Marxist political economy, Carroll and Sapinski delve into the capitalist economic system at the root of corporate wealth and power and analyze the ways the capitalist class dominates over contemporary Canadian society. The authors illustrate how corporate power perpetuates inequality and injustice. They follow the development of corporate power through Canadian history, from its roots in settler-colonialism and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their land, to the concentration of capital into giant corporations in the late nineteenth century. More recently, capitalist globalization and the consolidation of a market-driven neoliberal regime have dramatically enhanced corporate power while exacerbating social and economic inequalities. The result is our current oligarchic order, where power is concentrated in a few corporations that are controlled by the super-wealthy and organized into a cohesive corporate elite. Finally, Carroll and Sapinski offer possibilities for placing corporate power where it actually belongs: in the dustbin of history.
Author : Doris A. Fuchs
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business and politics
ISBN : UCSC:32106018981271
Has the political power of big business, particularly transnational corporations (TNCs), increased in our globalizing world? What, if anything, constrains TNCs? Analyzing the role of business in the global arena, this systematic and theoretically grounded book addresses these questions. Fuchs considers the implications of expanded lobbying efforts by businesses and business associations, the impact of capital mobility, and developments in the area of self-regulation and public-private partnerships. She also highlights the role of business in framing policy issues and influencing public debate. Clearly identifying the sources of the marked increase in the political power of TNCs, she also provides ample evidence of the limitations and vulnerabilities that rein them in. About Author: Doris Fuchs is professor of international relations and European integration at the University of Stuttgart. She is author of An Institutional Basis for Environmental Stewardship.
Author : Christopher May
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126884381
This is an exploration of the diverse ways that corporations affect the practices and structures of the global political economy. The text addresses fundamental questions such as: How can the corporation be most usefully conceptualized within the field of IPE?
Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135249434
Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book seeks to map and define the nature of resistance and domination in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a Marxist-informed framework, this book reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism. In contrast to other texts that deal with corporate governance, this study examines a diverse and comprehensive set of themes, from socially responsible investing to labour-led shareholder activism and its limitations. Through this ambitious and critical study, author Susanne Soederberg demonstrates how the corporate governance doctrine represents an inherent feature of neoliberal rule, effectively disembedding and depoliticising relations of domination and resistance from the wider power and paradoxes of capitalism. Examining corporate governance and shareholder activism in a number of different contexts that include the United States and the global South, this important book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, international relations and development studies. It will also be of relevance to a wider range of disciplines including finance, economics, and business and management studies. Winner of the Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Award.
Author : Doris Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1685853714
Has the political power of big business, particularly transnational corporations (TNCs), increased in our globalizing world? What, if anything, constrains TNCs? Analyzing the role of business in the global arena, this systematic and theoretically grounded book addresses these questions. Fuchs considers the implications of expanded lobbying efforts by businesses and business associations, the impact of capital mobility, and developments in the area of self-regulation and public-private partnerships. She also highlights the role of business in framing policy issues and influencing public debate. Clearly identifying the sources of the marked increase in the political power of TNCs, she also provides ample evidence of the limitations and vulnerabilities that rein them in.
Author : Richard J. Barnet,Ronald E. Müller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015000620701
Examines the role of multinational corporations in the economy of the world and their effect on governments, taxpayers, consumers, workers, and businessmen.
