The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

by Coen, David; Grant, Wyn; Wilson, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780199693740
• ISBN10: 0199693749
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, the study of how business and government relate to each other in different countries is of more central importance than ever. These relationships have been studied from a number of different disciplinary perspectives--business studies, economics, economic history, law, and political science-- and all of these are represented in this handbook. The first part of the book provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government. The second section, on the firm and the state, looks at how these entities interact in different settings, emphasising such phenomena as the global firm and varieties of capitalism. The third section examines how business interacts with government in different parts of the world, including the United States, the EU, China, Japan and South America. The fourth section reviews changing patterns of market governance through a unifying theme of the role of regulation. Business-government relations can play out in divergent ways in different policy and the fifth section examines the contrasts between different key arenas such as competition policy, trade policy, training policy and environmental policy. The volume provides an authoritative overview with chapters by leading authorities on the current state of knowledge of business-government relations, but also points to ways in which this work might be developed in the future, e.g., through a political theory of the firm. About the Series Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.

Author Biography

Voula Tsouna is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
First Things	p. 13
Vices, Emotions, and 'Bites'	p. 32
Analysis and Treatment: Methodological and Epistemological Prolegomena	p. 52
Therapeutic Tactics	p. 74
Frank Speech	p. 91
	p. 91
	p. 119
	p. 122
Flattery and the Desire to Please	p. 124
Arrogance and Related Vices	p. 126
Wealth and Property Management	p. 163
Anger and the Desire for Revenge	p. 195
The Fear of Death	p. 239
References and Select Bibliography	p. 312
Index	p. 323
Index of Names	p. 333
Index Locorum	p. 337
List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xii
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Overview	p. 1
Disciplinary Perspectives
Political Science: Perspectives on Business and Government	p. 9
Economics: Economic Theories of the Firm, Business, and Government	p. 35
Law and Business	p. 63
Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business-State Relations	p. 89
Firm and State
Varieties of Capitalism and Business	p. 123
The Global Firm: The Problem of the Giant Firm in emocratic Capitalism	p. 148
The Political Theory of the Firm	p. 173
Business and Political Parties	p. 191
Economic Interests and Political Representation: Coordination and Distributive Conflict in Historical Perspective	p. 208
Business and Neo-corporatism	p. 248
Comparative Business Systems
Business Representation in Washington, DC	p. 261
European Business-Government Relations	p. 285
Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of Fragmentation and Centralization	p. 307
Japanese Business-Government Relations	p. 330
China and the Multinational Experience	p. 346
Changing Market Governance
The Rise of the Regulatory State	p. 383
International Regulators and Network Governance	p. 404
Credit Rating Agencies	p. 422
International Standards and Standard Setting Bodies	p. 440
Taming Globalization? Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism	p. 472
Policy
Corporate Control and Managerial Power	p. 497
Corporate Social Responsibility and Government	p. 512
The State, Business, and Training	p. 544
Social Policy and Business	p. 565
Public-Private Partnerships in Business and Government	p. 585
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy: Evaluating its Role and Purpose	p. 600
Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption	p. 622
Media Economics and the Political Economy of Information	p. 643
Environmental and Food Safety Policy	p. 663
Network Utilities: Technological Development, Market Structure, and Forms of Ownership	p. 684
Endogenous Trade Protection: A Survey	p. 703
Competition Policy	p. 730
General Index	p. 757
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