The Megacorporation in American Society
Author: Phillip I. Blumberg
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Revival: The Megacorp and Oligopoly: Micro Foundations of Macro Dynamics (1981)
Author: Alfred S. Eicher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1351696742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 1976. This book provides both an explanation of the inflation which has bedeviled economic policy in the West since the end of World War II and a micro-economic theory to purge Keynesian models of the Walrasian strain derived from Marshall's Principles. By focusing on what is taken to be the representative business firm of the twentieth century - the large corporation or megacorp - the microeconomic model presented in the book reverses the usual assumptions of economic analysis. Instead of assuming the existence of firms with no control over prices, the book examines how the megacorp uses its pricing power to finance its own internal rate of growth. The result is a determinant model of how prices are set under the sort of oligopolistic conditions which prevail in most modern industries throughout the world.
The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Douglas M. Eichar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-25
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1351615009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorporate social responsibility was one of the most consequential business trends of the twentieth century. Having spent decades burnishing reputations as both great places to work and generous philanthropists, large corporations suddenly abandoned their commitment to their communities and employees during the 1980s and 1990s, indicated by declining job security, health insurance, and corporate giving. Douglas M. Eichar argues that for most of the twentieth century, the benevolence of large corporations functioned to stave off government regulations and unions, as corporations voluntarily adopted more progressive workplace practices or made philanthropic contributions. Eichar contends that as governmental and union threats to managerial prerogatives withered toward the century's end, so did corporate social responsibility. Today, with shareholder value as their beacon, large corporations have shred their social contract with their employees, decimated unions, avoided taxes, and engaged in all manner of risky practices and corrupt politics. This book is the first to cover the entire history of twentieth-century corporate social responsibility. It provides a valuable perspective from which to revisit the debate concerning the public purpose of large corporations. It also offers new ideas that may transform the public debate about regulating larger corporations.
Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Stewart Clegg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1134717032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.
Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism
Author: Susanne Soederberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-09-14
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1135249431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines neoliberal corporate power within the context of the American political economy and its relationship to emerging market economies in order to understand the global dimensions of the corporate-financial binary.
Blumberg on Corporate Groups
Author: Phillip I. Blumberg
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 5804
ISBN-13: 0735542066
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In Whose Interests
Author: M. Patricia Marchak
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0773538674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive entry into the literature of political economy.
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Author: William K. Carroll
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0774844930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging standard dependency theory, William Carroll argues from empirical evidence that Canada's financial-industrial elite have maintained and consolidated their competitive position at the centre of an inter-corporate network. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism thus acknowledges the unusually high degree to which capital is concentrated in a relatively few giant corporations in Canada, but it denies that these commercial interests are subordinated to American corporate capital. To test the validity of this new perspective on the transformation of indigenous capitalists into a national bourgeoisie, Carroll traces the accumulation of capital in the largest Canadian corporations and the institutional relations that have existed among the same firms since World War II. Instead of selling out to foreign capital, Canadian firms have in fact become increasingly interlocked, and Canadian-controlled firms have been and continue to be the focus of both the industrial and financial sectors, with foreign-controlled companies occupying decidedly peripheral positions. From this interpretative position, Canada's development is seen as markedly similar to that of other advanced capitalist countries, culminating in consolidation of control under an elite accompanied both by penetration of foreign economies by domestic financial capitalists and a concomitant penetration of the domestic economy by foreign capital.
The Public Company Transformed
Author: Brian Cheffins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-09-28
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0190640340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public company has changed considerably. The transformation has been a fascinating one, marked by scandals, political controversy, wide swings in investor and public sentiment, mismanagement, entrepreneurial verve, noisy corporate "raiders" and various other larger-than-life personalities. Nevertheless, amidst a voluminous literature on corporations, a systematic historical analysis of the changes that have occurred is lacking. The Public Company Transformed correspondingly analyzes how the public company has been recast from the mid-20th century through to the present day, with particular emphasis on senior corporate executives and the constraints affecting the choices available to them. The chronological point of departure is the managerial capitalism era, which prevailed in large American corporations following World War II. The book explores managerial capitalism's rise, its 1950s and 1960s heyday, and its fall in the 1970s and 1980s. It describes the American public companies and executives that enjoyed prosperity during the 1990s, and the reversal of fortunes in the 2000s precipitated by corporate scandals and the financial crisis of 2008. The book also considers the regulation of public companies in detail, and discusses developments in shareholder activism, company boards, chief executives, and concerns about oligopoly. The volume concludes by offering conjectures on the future of the public corporation, and suggests that predictions of the demise of the public company have been exaggerated.
Alliances for Sustainable Development
Author: L. Berlie
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-11-27
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 023027806X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and hands-on exploration of corporate-NGO alliances. It offers original insight to understand why alliances exist and to what end. It also looks into the asymmetries between partners and dwells on three crucial aspects of alliances management : alliance capacity development, stakeholder involvement and alliance metrics.
