Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government by Wilson, Graham K.; Maguire, Matthew;

Long description:

This authoritative Encyclopedia surveys the scale, variety and quality of contemporary scholarship on the relationships between business and government. Drawing on economics, sociology, business studies and political science, world-renowned scholars explore a wide range of core and cutting-edge topics.

Providing contributions on issues faced by leaders in business, government and civil society, the Encyclopedia outlines how state-led structures determine business prospects and the extent to which they take into account societal values. It also explores how businesses impact politics and public policy through lobbying and campaign contributions, as well as through the practices and policies they pursue. Distinct themes emerge across the Encyclopedia, including critiques of contemporary capitalism, ways of improving the business–government relationship, technological innovations, key economic, political and social actors and growth and investment.

Presenting a contemporary guide to scholarship across a broad range of topics, the Encyclopedia is an essential reference for students and academics in corporate governance, business studies, sociology, economics and political science.

Key Features:

• Presents key literature, topics, and debates in the area as a foundation for effective research
• Includes more than 50 entries from leading scholars around the world, organised alphabetically for accessibility and ease of navigation
• Identifies key areas for future research


This authoritative Encyclopedia surveys the scale, variety and quality of contemporary scholarship on the relationships between business and government. Drawing on economics, sociology, business studies and political science, world-renowned scholars explore a wide range of core and cutting-edge topics.

This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

‘It would be sufficient just to point to the table of contents – 54 entries about various aspects of business–government relations authored by scholars in multiple disciplines from a baker’s dozen countries. Why, then, did I continue to read them all? Because I found them so interesting, and I was learning so much.’
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Table of Contents:

Contents
Introduction ix
Graham K. Wilson and Matthew Maguire
1 Artificial intelligence 1
Regine Paul
2 Audits as assurance in
contemporary regulatory
governance 7
Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld
3 Automation 12
Larry Liu
4 Business and federal climate
change policies 17
David Vogel
5 Business and right-wing
populism 23
Daniel Kinderman
6 Business case for democracy 31
Carl Henrik Knutsen
7 Business, corruption, and
democracy 35
Daniel Nyberg
8 Business, government, and
experimentalist governance 41
Bernardo Rangoni
9 Business influence in complex
global governance 47
Maisie Hopkins and Judith Van Erp
10 Business lobbying and
regulation in the European
Union 53
David Coen and Alexander Katsaitis
11 Business power in Latin
America 61
Jonas Wolff
12 Business representation in the
United Kingdom 67
Wyn Grant
13 Capitalism and corporate power 73
John Mikler
14 Competition law and capitalism 79
Chase Foster
15 Cooperatives 85
Simon Pek and Morshed Mannan
16 Corporate activism 90
Laura Olkkonen
17 Corporate and white-collar
crime 95
Justin Rex
18 Corporate political activity in
Africa 100
Tahiru Liedong
19 Corporate sense-making and
sense-giving of public policies 106
Onna Malou van den Broek
and Jamie Plaatjes
20 Corporate social
irresponsibility 111
Giulio Nardella
21 Corporate tax avoidance 116
Thomas Paster
22 Corporate trust and
trustworthiness 122
Michael Hadani
23 Cultural foundations of
varieties of capitalism 127
Cathie Jo Martin
24 Employee ownership 132
Simon Pek, Lorin Busaan and
Mark Clayton Hand
25 Environmental governance in
China 137
Yixian Sun
26 Gig economy 143
Andrea M. Herrmann
27 Global finance: Changing
practices, actors, and
geographies 149
Jan Fichtner and Johannes Petry
28 Global industry associations 156
Karsten Ronit
29 Government regulation of racial
inequality in the workplace 163
Atinuke O. Adediran
30 Growth Models 168
Herman Mark Schwartz and
Bent Sofus Tranøy
31 Job insecurity 174
Sonia Bertolini
32 Migration, capitalism and
inequality 179
James Hampshire
33 Moral hazard and public policy 185
Kim Pernell
34 The oligarchs, the Kremlin,
and Russia’s future 191
Stanislav Markus
35 Plastics pollution and
governance 198
Jacob Hasselbalch and
Joachim Peter Tilsted
36 Platform capitalism 204
Michael Kemmerling
37 The political economy of
inequality 210
Bastian Becker
38 Populism, business and the
transformation of network
governance 216
Glenn Morgan and Magnus Feldmann
39 Public-private governance
interactions 223
Janina Grabs
40 Regulatory capture 231
Georg Rilinger
41 Regulatory shaming 236
Sharon Yadin
42 The regulatory state 242
Eva Heims
43 Revolving door 247
Ivana V. Katic
44 The role of multistakeholder
initiatives in global governance:
Relevance, challenges, and
critical analysis 255
Dirk Ulrich Gilbert
45 Social movements and activism 263
Frank G. A. de Bakker
46 Startup capitalism 268
Robyn Klingler-Vidra and
Ramon Pacheco Pardo
47 State-business relations in the
green transition 274
Caroline Ahler Christesen
and Milan Babić
48 Structural power of business 281
Keren Borenstein-Nativ
49 Sustainable finance 286
Daniel Mertens and Natascha
van der Zwan
50 Trade unions as economic and
political actors 293
Dennie Oude Nijhuis
51 Transnational litigation 300
Phillip Paiement
52 Vocational education and
training 307
Merve Sancak
53 Welfare states 313
Robert Henry Cox
54 Working time reduction 317
Agnieszka Piasna