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Author: Christina Garsten ,
Adrienne Sörbom
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.488kg
ISBN: 9781784711207
ISBN 10: 1784711209
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 27 October 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
'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 Information
Edited 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
