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.
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