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41 produkter
The Cost of Doing Politics
How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape Corporate Influence
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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Using quantitative and qualitative evidence, Sumner shows how consumer boycotts can work to dissuade companies from donating money to politicians, but may also encourage companies to attempt influence by largely invisible means. Boycotts do not work as many people expect - by threatening sales. …
The Cost of Doing Politics
How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape Corporate Influence
Häftad, 2024
459 kr
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Using quantitative and qualitative evidence, Sumner shows how consumer boycotts can work to dissuade companies from donating money to politicians, but may also encourage companies to attempt influence by largely invisible means. Boycotts do not work as many people expect - by threatening sales. …
The Profits of Distrust
Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government
Av Manuel P. Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
477 kr
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The burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive bottled water, rather than cheaper, sustainable, and more rigorously regulated tap water? The Profits of Distrust links citizens' choices about the water they drink to civic life …
The Profits of Distrust
Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government
Av Manuel P. Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1432 kr
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The burgeoning bottled water industry presents a paradox: Why do people choose expensive, environmentally destructive bottled water, rather than cheaper, sustainable, and more rigorously regulated tap water? The Profits of Distrust links citizens' choices about the water they drink to civic life …
China's Chance to Lead
Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization
Häftad, 2023
509 kr
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How is China acquiring global influence? Rather than focusing exclusively on China's interests, this book considers a vital but overlooked feature - the interests of recipient countries. Richard W. Carney argues that countries in which political leaders rely more heavily on clientelism coupled with …
China's Chance to Lead
Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization
Inbunden, 2023
1529 kr
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How is China acquiring global influence? Rather than focusing exclusively on China's interests, this book considers a vital but overlooked feature - the interests of recipient countries. Richard W. Carney argues that countries in which political leaders rely more heavily on clientelism coupled with …
China's State-Owned Enterprises
Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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Why do Chinese state-owned enterprises routinely respond to central-level goals and policies in different ways, and why do their reform trajectories often vary significantly across firms and over time? This book introduces a leadership approach to studying the politics, process, and outcomes of …
China's State-Owned Enterprises
Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization
Häftad, 2024
508 kr
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Why do Chinese state-owned enterprises routinely respond to central-level goals and policies in different ways, and why do their reform trajectories often vary significantly across firms and over time? This book introduces a leadership approach to studying the politics, process, and outcomes of …
Closing the Institutional Gap
How Foreign Investors Shape Domestic Institutions in Emerging Markets
Av Siyao Li
Inbunden, 2026
1474 kr
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As multinational corporations (MNCs) expand their global presence, they actively shape the legal and institutional frameworks that govern foreign markets. Challenging the conventional view that firms primarily rely on external institutions to safeguard their property rights in countries with weak …
Closing the Institutional Gap
How Foreign Investors Shape Domestic Institutions in Emerging Markets
Av Siyao Li
Häftad, 2026
435 kr
Kommande
As multinational corporations (MNCs) expand their global presence, they actively shape the legal and institutional frameworks that govern foreign markets. Challenging the conventional view that firms primarily rely on external institutions to safeguard their property rights in countries with weak …
The Rise of Global Corporate Social Responsibility
Mining and the Spread of Global Norms
Inbunden, 2012
1039 kr
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Combining insights from international relations theory with institutional approaches from organization theory and public policy, this book provides a complete explanation for the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), showing how global norms influenced CSR adoption in the mining …
Grassroots for Hire
Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy
Inbunden, 2014
1163 kr
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Although 'grassroots' conjures up images of independent citizen organizing, much mass participation today is sponsored by elite consultants working for corporations and powerful interest groups. This book pulls back the curtain to reveal a lucrative industry of consulting firms that incentivize …
Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business
Inbunden, 2012
1481 kr
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What are the political motivations behind firms' decisions to adopt policies that self-regulate their behavior in a manner that is beyond compliance with state, federal and local law? Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business advances a new understanding of the firm as a political …
Globalizing Oil
Firms and Oil Market Governance in France, Japan, and the United States
Inbunden, 2014
1526 kr
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Oil is the world's most important commodity. It is also one of the most politicized, with national oil companies controlling most of the world's reserves. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Llewelyn Hughes shows that governments across the advanced industrial states responded to the politicization of …
The Managerial Sources of Corporate Social Responsibility
The Spread of Global Standards
Inbunden, 2014
1928 kr
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Why and under which conditions do companies voluntarily adopt high social and environmental standards? Christian R. Thauer looks inside the firm to illustrate the internal drivers of the social conduct of business. He argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) assists decision-makers to …
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Av Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Alwyn Lim
Inbunden, 2015
2103 kr
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Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, …
Globalizing India
How Global Rules and Markets are Shaping India's Rise to Power
Av Aseema Sinha
Inbunden, 2016
1184 kr
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India's recent economic transformation has fascinated scholars, global leaders, and interested observers alike. In 1990, India was a closed economy and a hesitant and isolated economic power. By 2016, India has rapidly risen on the global economic stage; foreign trade now drives more than half of …
The Institutions Curse
Natural Resources, Politics, and Development
Inbunden, 2016
1423 kr
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The 'resource curse' is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the weakening of state capacity, authoritarianism, fewer public goods, war, and economic stagnation. This book debunks this view, arguing that there is an …
Governance Entrepreneurs
International Organizations and the Rise of Global Public-Private Partnerships
Inbunden, 2017
1561 kr
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Global partnerships have transformed international institutions by creating platforms for direct collaboration with NGOs, foundations, companies and local actors. They introduce a model of governance that is decentralized, networked and voluntary, and which melds public purpose with private …
Beyond Politics
The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
Av Michael P. Vandenbergh, Jonathan M. Gilligan
Inbunden, 2017
1761 kr
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Private sector action provides one of the most promising opportunities to reduce the risks of climate change, buying time while governments move slowly or even oppose climate mitigation. Starting with the insight that much of the resistance to climate mitigation is grounded in concern about the …
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World
Av Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Alwyn Lim
Häftad, 2016
895 kr
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Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? This volume examines these questions by drawing on historical documents, interviews, qualitative case comparison, fieldwork, multiple regression, …
Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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What are the political motivations behind firms' decisions to adopt policies that self-regulate their behavior in a manner that is beyond compliance with state, federal and local law? Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business advances a new understanding of the firm as a political …
Grassroots for Hire
Public Affairs Consultants in American Democracy
Häftad, 2014
487 kr
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Although 'grassroots' conjures up images of independent citizen organizing, much mass participation today is sponsored by elite consultants working for corporations and powerful interest groups. This book pulls back the curtain to reveal a lucrative industry of consulting firms that incentivize …
The Managerial Sources of Corporate Social Responsibility
The Spread of Global Standards
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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Why and under which conditions do companies voluntarily adopt high social and environmental standards? Christian R. Thauer looks inside the firm to illustrate the internal drivers of the social conduct of business. He argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) assists decision-makers to …
Incentives to Pander
How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain
Av Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky
Häftad, 2019
586 kr
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Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting …
Incentives to Pander
How Politicians Use Corporate Welfare for Political Gain
Av Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky
Inbunden, 2018
1641 kr
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Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting …
Power Grab
Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization
Inbunden, 2020
1542 kr
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For rulers whose territories are blessed with extractive resources - such as petroleum, metals, and minerals that will power the clean energy transition - converting natural wealth into fiscal wealth is key. Squandering the opportunity to secure these revenues will guarantee short tenures, while …
Private Governance and Public Authority
Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy
Inbunden, 2020
1418 kr
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At a time of significant concern about the sustainability of the global economy, businesses are eager to display responsible corporate practices. While rulemaking for these practices was once the prerogative of states, businesses and civil society actors are increasingly engaged in creating private …
Merging Interests
When Domestic Firms Shape FDI Policy
Inbunden, 2019
1509 kr
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Why do governments open their economies to multinational enterprises (MNEs)? Some argue democratic forces promote this openness, but many citizen groups view multinational business with suspicion. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, Bauerle Danzman demonstrates how large domestic firms …
Authoritarian Capitalism
Sovereign Wealth Funds and State-Owned Enterprises in East Asia and Beyond
Häftad, 2019
569 kr
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Since 1945, the liberal-democratic model of capitalism spread across the globe, ultimately prevailing over communism. Over the past two decades, a new statist-authoritarian model has begun diffusing across East Asia. Rather than rejecting capitalism, authoritarian leaders harness it to uphold their …
