Global Corporate Power

Author : John Mikler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745698496

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The Political Power of Global Corporations by John Mikler Pdf

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 : Christopher May
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126884381

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Global Corporate Power by Christopher May Pdf

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 : Farnsworth, Kevin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847425867

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Corporate power and social policy in a global economy by Farnsworth, Kevin Pdf

Spanning the complete era of the Conservative governments and the first term of New Labour, this book looks at mechanisms of corporate power and influence; corporate opinion and influence in a range of social policy areas including: education, training, health and social security; changing business influence on social policy in recent years in an international context and business involvement in social policy initiatives and welfare delivery. By exploring business views and opinions, power, influence and involvement in social provision, this book helps to address important questions in social policy and, in so doing, goes some way towards closing a gaping hole in the current literature. The book's breadth and multidisciplinary approach will appeal not only to students of social policy, but also to students of business, public sector management and politics, their teachers and policy makers in the field.

Author : Sarah Anderson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437902518

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Top 200 by Sarah Anderson Pdf

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 : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135249434

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Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism by Susanne Soederberg Pdf

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 : Christopher May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 158826971X

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Global Corporate Power by Christopher May Pdf

Author : Ronald W. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136328428

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Corporate Power and Globalization in US Foreign Policy by Ronald W. Cox Pdf

More than a decade into the new millennium, the fusion of corporate and state power is the essential defining feature of US foreign policy. This edited volume critically examines the relationship between corporations and the US state in the development of foreign policies related to globalization. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this work explores the role of corporations in using US foreign policies to advance the interests of transnational capital in a wide range of contexts, including: how US government policies have contributed to the globalization of production and finance the ways in which transnational corporations have influenced the US relationship with China, a crucial linkage in the new era of transnational accumulation how transnational corporate power has shaped capital-labour relations, humanitarian intervention, structural adjustment policies, low-intensity democracy and the G20 summits the "corporate centrism" of the Obama Administration, whose policies have been consistent with the growing power of transnational capital in US foreign policymaking the politics and consequences of the embedded relationship between various sectors of the transnational capitalist class, global institutions and the US state, including the limits and contradictions of this relationship during the ongoing capitalist crisis. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of both US foreign policy and international political economy.

Author : William K. Carroll,J.P. Sapinski
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773630816

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Organizing the 1% by William K. Carroll,J.P. Sapinski Pdf

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 : Peter A. Gourevitch,James Shinn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400837014

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Political Power and Corporate Control by Peter A. Gourevitch,James Shinn Pdf

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 : Stephen Wilks
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849807326

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The Political Power of the Business Corporation by Stephen Wilks Pdf

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 : Jennifer Clapp,Doris A. Fuchs
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262012751

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Corporate Power in Global Agrifood Governance by Jennifer Clapp,Doris A. Fuchs Pdf

food aid policy to governance in the seed industry and international food safety standards.

Author : John Mikler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118326121

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The Handbook of Global Companies by John Mikler Pdf

The Handbook of Global Companies brings together original research addressing the latest theories and empirical analysis surrounding the role of global companies in local, national, and international governance. Offers new insights into the role of global companies in relation to policy and governance at local, national, and international levels Brings together newly-commissioned research by a global team of established and up-and-coming scholars from the fields of international relations, political science, public policy, and beyond Considers the environmental and societal responsibilities of global corporations. Covers topics including the spatial locations of global companies; debate about the power they wield and their role as catalysts in new forms of governance; and the ways in which global companies share authority with the state and international organizations to drive policy processes Speculates on the broader potential and limitations of global governance

Author : Ronald W. Cox,Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555877710

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U.S. Politics and the Global Economy by Ronald W. Cox,Daniel Skidmore-Hess Pdf

This book investigates the influence of globalization on ideology and politics in the United States. Ronald Cox and Daniel Skidmore-Hess argue that U.S. policy has been motivated less by anxiety about the independence and stability of the domestic economy and more by worry about factors that might limit the participation of U.S. corporations in international markets. Connecting trends in domestic and foreign policy with the changing needs of industry, they associate increased globalization with the the breakup of the liberal, New Deal coalition; the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement in the 1970s; the neoconservative, antiregulatory movements of the 1980s; and the rightward drift of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

Author : John Mikler,Karsten Ronit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789903232

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MNCs in Global Politics by John Mikler,Karsten Ronit Pdf

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 : Gregg Barak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317360537

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Unchecked Corporate Power by Gregg Barak Pdf

Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of the street? When police killings of citizens go unpunished, political torture is sanctioned by the state, and the financial frauds of Wall Street traders remain unprosecuted, nothing succeeds with such regularity as the active failures of national states to obstruct the crimes of the powerful. Written from the perspective of global sustainability and as an unflinching and unforgiving exposé of the full range of the crimes of the powerful, Unchecked Corporate Power reveals how legalized authorities and political institutions charged with the duty of protecting citizens from law-breaking and injurious activities have increasingly become enablers and colluders with the very enterprises they are obliged to regulate. Here, Gregg Barak explains why the United States and other countries are duplicitous in their harsh reactions to street crimes in comparison to the significantly more harmful and far-reaching crimes of the powerful, and why the crimes of the powerful are treated as beyond incrimination. What happens to nations that surrender ever-growing economic and political power to the globally super rich and the mammoth multinational corporations they control? And what can people from around the world do to resist the criminality and victimization perpetrated by multinationals, and generated by the prevailing global political economy? Barak examines an array of multinational crimes—corporate, environmental, financial, and state—and their state-legal responses, and outlines policies and strategies for revolutionizing these contradictory relations of capital reproduction, criminality, and unsustainability.