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Cover The New Corporate Landscape
The New Corporate Landscape
Economic Concentration, Transnational Governance, and the Corporation
Presenting a comprehensive overview of the changes in policies and economic doctrines of the American economy following the 2008 global financial crisis, this book critically examines the reformation of the corporate landscape. Observing the growth of oligopolistic market tendencies and increased economic concentration, it draws on scholarly literature from economics, management studies and legal theory to provide an integrated perspective on the causes and consequences of the crisis.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882546
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Business 2022
Cover A Research Agenda for Corporations
A Research Agenda for Corporations
This exciting Research Agenda offers a multi-disciplinary and historically informed programme for the further investigation of the global political economy of the corporate sector. It tackles the question, can and should the corporation be reformed? Christopher May develops a range of intersecting areas for research while also offering an account of the possibilities for the reform of the global corporation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Oct 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977531
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Finance in an Age of Austerity
Finance in an Age of Austerity
The Power of Customer-owned Banks
This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-operative banks, building societies – have hardly been affected by the crisis and continue to operate according to their organisational DNA: low-risk, close to the customer, underpinned by real savings, and still lending to SMEs to protect jobs and local economies. They are big business – in some countries with over 40% of the market – but networked in smaller, democratic societies whose origins go back to 1850s Germany.
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Publication Date:
30 Apr 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781951842
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Business 2013
Cover Business and Human Rights
Business and Human Rights
Editor:
Wesley Cragg
Topics discussed include the debates leading to the creation of the ISO 26000 standard and the United Nations human rights framework for business entities, as well as the nature and limits of the human rights responsibilities of business, the roles and responsibilities of international trade bodies like the World Trade Organization in protecting human rights, and the implications of the current debate for international trade agreements and trade with China. The contributors also explore the effectiveness of voluntary human rights standards in the textile and clothing trade, mining, advertising and the pharmaceutical industries.
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Publication Date:
30 Nov 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781005774
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Business 2012
Cover Does Economic Governance Matter?
Does Economic Governance Matter?
Governance Institutions and Outcomes
This book contributes to the growing governance literature in three ways. First, it extends the analysis to new areas such as power asymmetry, regulation, transnational company strategies, and law enforcement. Secondly, it examines the role of formal institutions that shape and enforce the rules/norms codified in law; but also private-ordering institutions that function under the umbrella of the State; and private institutions (such as market rules/norms) that provide reputational and other information that foster compliance. Finally, the book extends and enriches the governance debate, addressing issues such as the determinants of institutional quality and efficiency, and the interaction between actor networks and institutional norms.
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Publication Date:
31 Aug 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857931771
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Economics 2011
Cover Governance in a Disenchanted World
Governance in a Disenchanted World
The End of Moral Society
This book expounds the idea of a disenchanted world composed of nation states and global functional systems. The nation state is losing some of its regulatory prerogatives and, at the same time, extending its legitimacy base in ‘chains of legitimacy’ to transnational institutions. There is neither a global democracy nor a global government. Therefore, establishing alternative forms of legitimacy, accountability and participation in a secular world seem mandatory. Helmut Willke examines the resurgence of moral reasoning in global affairs, pushed by various fundamentalisms, that indicates a real danger of a regression of democracy. The separation of private morals and public policies, the book argues, remains the basis of global aspirations of democracy.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Nov 2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781951378
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Business 2010 and before
Cover Corporate Governance and Ethics
Corporate Governance and Ethics
An Aristotelian Perspective
Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle’s Politics for today’s corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of the realm of abstract rules and structures into a more effective form of Aristotelian politics. He argues that corporate governance is a human practice where subjective, ethical conditions outweigh the mastery of techniques, since the firm is not a mere production function but, above all, a community of workers. Corporate governance issues are discussed in a holistic fashion, using international case studies to embed the discussion in environments defined by their economic, legal and cultural systems. One of the author’s key messages is that reform starts with the ethical and political education of directors.
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Publication Date:
30 Jul 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848442948
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Business 2010 and before
Cover International Business under Adversity
International Business under Adversity
A Role in Corporate Responsibility, Conflict Prevention and Peace
What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers’ understanding of the ways in which profit maximization, value creation and community benefit interconnect. How to respect the wider business settings and communities, the environment and encourage peace? Is this just another dream? This book clearly provides a starting point for upstream mitigation, in which collective action allows disruption to be avoided at its very roots. It shows the way into responsible business, as a downright condition for an enlightened self-interest for all parties to pursue.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Jul 2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848442962
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Business 2010 and before