The Inner Circle : Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and U.K.
This book delineates the ""inner circle"" of top executives who play a leading role in the international corporate network by promoting a political environment favorable to all business.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables; CHAPTER 1. Organizing Business; The United States and the United Kingdom; Images of Business Unity; Principles of Social Organization; Classwide Corporate Leadership; Sources of Information; CHAPTER 2. The Economic and Social Foundation: Corporate Ownership, Concentration, and Interlocking Directorship; The Separation of Ownership and Control; Economic Foundation: The Concentration of Corporate Resources; Social Foundation: The Interlocking Directorate; The Interlocking Directorate and Business Scan; Outside Directorships and Upward Promotions.
- The Origins of Invitations to Join a Corporate BoardThe Interlocking Directorate as a Communication Network; Networks and Classwide Social Organization; CHAPTER 3. Inner Circle Organization; The Power Elite; The Fundamentals of Inner-Circle Action; The Power of Multiple Corporate Connections; The Social Cohesion of the Inner Circle; The Upper Class and the Inner Circle; Inner-Circle Leadership of the Major Business Associations; Inner-Circle Organization; CHAPTER 4. The Leading Edge of Business Political Activity; Advisory Service to the National Government.
- Governance of Nonprofit OrganizationsPolitical Parties and Candidates; Contact with the Media; The Informal Screening of Business Contact with the Government; The Inner Circle Favors Its Own; Transcorporate Experience and Business-Association Leadership are Prerequisites; The Route to the Inner Circle; How to Identify a Member of the Inner Circle; The View from the Inner Circle; The Leading Edge; CHAPTER 5. Classwide Politics and Corporate Decision-Making; Noncorporate Criteria in Corporate Decision-Making; Corporate Philanthropy; Which Companies Give?; Soliciting Corporate Contributions.
- Issue AdvertisingPolitical Contributions and Political Action Committees; Pressuring the Corporation; The Dual Logic of Corporate and Classwide Decision Criteria; CHAPTER 6. The Challenge of Profits, Labor, and Government; Declining Company Profits; The Challenge to British Labor; The Challenge of Regulation in the United States; The Mobilization of Business; CHAPTER 7. Family, Managerial, and Institutional Capitalism; Three Stages of Development in the United States; Two and One-Half Stages of Development in the United Kingdom; Institutional Capitalism and Classwide Politics.
- Appendix: British and American Corporations StudiedNotes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.