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This authoritative book examines the power of multinational
corporations (MNCs) to exert influence in global politics. Focusing
on the actions and motivations of MNCs, it explores how they
attempt to shape the political issues that affect them. Combining
theoretical perspectives with analyses of enlightening case
studies, the contributors consider key areas in which MNCs seek to
exert political influence such as environmental sustainability,
social conflicts and corporate tax avoidance, as well as in
specific industries including mining, shipping and consulting. They
also illustrate the mechanisms used by MNCs to exert influence in a
wide range of policy fields at multiple territorial levels,
discussing how they interact with states, intergovernmental
organizations and civil society, as well as how they coordinate
their activities with other parts of the business community. The
book concludes that MNCs enjoy certain basic privileges in society
and politics due to their preponderant economic position and their
key role in the processes of globalization, but action is necessary
to sustain this role. MNCs in Global Politics will be critical
reading for academics and students of politics, international
relations and political economy, particularly those with an
interest in globalization and governance. Its exploration of
specific case studies will also be beneficial for policy-makers.
We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their
interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their
citizens. Yet while states, civil society and international
organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions,
ideologies and functions, the world s 100,000 + global corporations
are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of pure profit
maximization. In this book, John Mikler recasts global corporations
as political actors with complex identities and strategies.
Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively
profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or
modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He
also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations
as political actors which reflect and project the political power
of the territories from which they hail We know the global
corporations names, we know where they are headquartered, and we
know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are
increasingly produced by the control they possess, the
relationships they have with other actors, the leverage they
employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they
create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book
represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making
assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.
Corporations, including those in the car industry, are increasingly
keen to proclaim their green credentials. But what motivates firms
to reduce the environmental impact of their products? Rather than
accepting the conventional wisdom, John Mikler addresses this
question in a novel way by taking a comparative institutionalist
approach informed by the Varieties of Capitalism literature.
Focusing on Germany, the US and Japan, the author shows that
national variations in capitalist relations of production are
central to explaining how the car industry tackles the issue of
climate change, such variations are crucial for understanding the
normative as well as material basis for firms' motivations. This
ground-breaking book will be of great benefit to students and
academics, particularly those with an interest in comparative
politics, public policy and international political economy. It may
also serve as a resource for courses on environmental politics and
environmental management as well as aspects of international
relations and business/management. Given the book's contemporary
policy relevance, it will be a valuable reference for policy
practitioners with an interest in industry policy, multinational
corporations, the environment, and institutional approaches to
comparative politics.
We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their
interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their
citizens. Yet while states, civil society and international
organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions,
ideologies and functions, the world s 100,000 + global corporations
are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of pure profit
maximization. In this book, John Mikler recasts global corporations
as political actors with complex identities and strategies.
Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively
profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or
modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He
also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations
as political actors which reflect and project the political power
of the territories from which they hail We know the global
corporations names, we know where they are headquartered, and we
know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are
increasingly produced by the control they possess, the
relationships they have with other actors, the leverage they
employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they
create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book
represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making
assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.
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