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OverviewPower, Policy and Profit investigates the many ways in which corporate actors attempt to influence political activities. Through the intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of welfare services and the accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics affairs are shown to have multiplied. Bringing together different fields of global governance studies, this book addresses the rising political influence of corporate actors both nationally and internationally. Corporate influence on policy is now commonplace through lobbying, advocacy and campaign contributions; funding analysis and research; creating or adopting standards for social responsibility and shaping transparency guidelines. Key chapters show how corporations can now have leverage in broad political affairs: an activity central to the organization of markets. Power, Policy and Profit will be of great interest to students and academics of business and management, politics and governance studies. Policy professionals will find this a timely read on the complexities of corporate engagement in politics and governance. Contributors include: F. Aggeri, E. Boxenbaum, J.-Y. Caneill, M. Cartel, M.L. Djelic, H. Dumez, M. Flyverbom, C. Garsten, A. Jeunemaitre, A. Nyqvist, M. Perezts, X. Philippe, S. Picard, B. Rothstein, A. Sörbom, V. Steyer, R. Thedvall, A. Tyllström, D.A. Westbrook Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christina Garsten , Adrienne SörbomPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.488kg ISBN: 9781784711207ISBN 10: 1784711209 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 27 October 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Political affairs in the global domain Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom. 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic 2. Global policy bricolage: The role of business in the World Economic Forum Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom 3. Policy making as collective bricolage: The role of the electricity sector in the Making of the European carbon market Mélodie Cartel, Eva Boxenbaum, Franck Aggeri and Jean-Yves Caneill 4. Lobbying in Practice: An ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy Anna Tyllström 5. Firms’ political strategies in a new public/private environment: The Boeing case Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître 6. Corporate advocacy in the internet domain: Shaping policy through data visualizations Mikkel Flyverbom 7. Talking like an institutional investor: On the gentle voices of financial giants Anette Nyqvist 8. Leading the war on epidemics: exploring corporations’ predatory modus operandi and their effects on institutional field dynamics Sébastien Picard, Véronique Steyer, Xavier Philippe and Mar Pérezts 9. Political chocolate: Branding it fairtrade Renita Thedvall 10. Preventing markets from self-destruction Bo Rothstein Reflections: Leaving Flatland? Planar discourses and the search for the G-axis. David A. Westbrook IndexReviews'An expansive, incisive analysis from well over a dozen scholars documenting the sprawling and fast-evolving growth of corporate power in policymaking venues across the globe. Pushing the narrative far beyond a simple money-in-politics story line, the authors illustrate how corporations exert increasing influence in the public sphere and often gain the upper hand vis-a-vis nation-states. Anyone concerned about democratic standards and accountable governance will find this book a must-read.' -- Janine R. Wedel, George Mason University, US 'This challenging book revisits the relationships between state and market by accounting for the unexpected development of corporations as policymakers, an emergent, global phenomenon. Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sorbom and their contributors address this fascinating issue in its multiple dimensions. They describe, examine and analyze the way corporations craftily bricole political and economic interests; the ambiguous status and roles of international non-state organizations playing on the global scene; the permanent duality between doing-good and making money that corporations embrace. They uncover a rather discrete but central transformation of today's definition of public intervention.' -- Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, Paris, France 'Power, Policy and Profit tackles the important and understudied problem of how firms attempt to shape their environment, especially their political and institutional environments. The essays in this volume go well beyond examining well know activities such as lobbying, campaign contributions, and building relations with policy makers to shed light on venues, strategies and events to which researchers have previously given scant attention. As such, the volume makes an important contribution the study of organizations and their environments and promises to stimulate important new lines of research on corporate power.' -- Stephen R. Barley, University of California Santa Barbara, US 'This challenging book revisits the relationships between state and market by accounting for the unexpected development of corporations as policy-makers, an emergent, global phenomenon. Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sorbom and their contributors address this fascinating issue in its multiple dimensions. They describe, examine and analyze the way corporations craftily bricole political and economic interests; the ambiguous status and roles of international non-state organizations playing on the global scene; the permanent duality between doing-good and making money that corporations embrace. They uncover a rather discrete but central transformation of today's definition of public intervention.' -- Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, Paris, France 'Power, Policy and Profit tackle the important and understudied problem of how firms attempt to shape their environment, especially their political and institutional environments. The essays in this volume go well beyond examining well know activities such as lobbying, campaign contributions, and building relations with policy makers to shed light on venues, strategies and events to which researchers have previously given scant attention. As such, the volume makes an important contribution the study of organizations and their environments and promises to stimulate important new lines of research on corporate power.' -- Stephen R. Barley, University of California Santa Barbara, US Author InformationEdited by Christina Garsten, Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology and Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE) and Adrienne Sörbom, Associate Professor of Sociology, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), Stockholm University, Sweden Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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