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THE LAST ASSOCIATION STANDING On some days, in certain moods, we Americans hare the corporation. It is not just the villain du jour. It is the very institution against which [...]

Singapore is a relentlessly G-rated experience, micromanaged by a state that has the look and feel of a very large corporation. If IBM had ever bothered to actually possess a [...]

Though they typically limit their televised appearances to newscasts, business programming, and primetime advertisements, the executives of corporations based in the United States occasionally participate in reality television shows. Within [...]

This is how to get free sticks and strings and clothes and gear from Dunlop, Inc., as long as you let them spraypaint the distinctive Dunlop logo on your sticks [...]

A convergence of economic, legal, political, and academic factors makes the topic of life writing and corporate personhood particularly timely for a special issue of the journal Biography. Economically, the [...]

For-profit companies are typically excluded from analyses of the social economy, and with good reason. The concept of shareholder primacy is deeply rooted within the modern corporation's organizational design--pursuing anything [...]

Although a research focus on the increasing involvement of corporations in shaping and maintaining the global rules of the game points out promising avenues for future research, it simultaneously makes clear how little currently established, mostly managerial conceptual frameworks have to offer in making sense of these developments. It is argued that we need to expand the rather restricted perspectives that these frameworks provide, in order to explore new conceptual foundations that will not only enable us to travel the confines of the different disciplines involved with the study of the changing role of business in shaping the global rules of the game, but that can also systematically connect normative and positive research questions at the conceptual level. Three directions for this search for new foundations are briefly explored.

The article provides rules for judging how and when to trust, including assessment of others' dilemmas and always remaining vigilant and questioning.

Drawing on findings in the literature on power structure research, this article argues that many of the biggest and most important nonprofit organizations are central components in the ongoing conflict between the corporate community and the power elite on the one side and the liberal--labor coalition and progressive social movements on the other. The article overviews live case studies to demonstrate the role of various types of nonprofits in specific policy conflicts. Keywords: foundations; nonprofits; power elite; upper class; corporations

This study examines the websites of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations as defined by Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc. under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. Philanthropy and employee voluntarism were routinely mentioned, hence excluded from the analysis as having little differentiating value, although useful as baseline concepts. Twelve terms and concepts relating to sustainability, corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility were identified as differentiating concepts. 'Social responsibility' was the term most frequently used as a primary term visible on the corporate website, but considering all terms observed regardless of order, 'sustainability' was the term most frequently used. Studies that look for evidence of corporate interest in sustainability, citizenship or social responsibility should be wide-ranging in the terms they consider and researchers should be alert to changing terminology. * Business ethics * Citizenship * Corporate social responsibility * Corporate website * Environmental disclosure, THIS RESEARCH EXAMINES TERMS USED IN THE SOCIAL REPORTING OF LEADING global corporations and categorises the ways in which these companies communicate their social objectives. Specifically, we examine the extent [...]

The recent wave of corporate wrongdoing has raised the issue of whether the public is concerned about the control of lawlessness in the business world. Using a national probability sample, we explore whether Americans want to enact stricter regulations of the stock market and advocate more punitive criminal sanctions for corporate executives who conceal their company's true financial condition. The findings reveal that Americans generally favor getting tough on corporate illegality. The analysis also indicates, however, that group differences exist in public support for punitive corporate crime control policies. Although liberals and conservatives equally support punishing corporate criminals more harshly, African Americans are more likely than Whites to endorse more restrictive and more punitive policies toward corporate criminals. We conclude that punitive attitudes are socially constructed beliefs that reflect the dynamics of conflicted class and racial relations. Keywords: public opinion; race and political orientation; corporate crime

ABSTRACT Biotechnologies have the potential to significantly impact the quality of life in a sustainable society through the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases, advances in agriculture and food [...]

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00522.x Byline: Matthieu Leprince (1), Thierry Madies (2), Sonia Paty (3) Abstract: ABSTRACT. We study the business tax ('taxe professionnelle') behavior of the intermediate level (department) of local government in France and test in the same model the two hypotheses that department tax rates are explained by upper tier (region) tax rates and by tax rates chosen by other departments. We first reject the hypothesis of tax interactions between departments and regions, the two upper levels of local governments. Second, we provide evidence that business tax interactions among departments are significant. Including the vertical dimension in the estimated model does not lead to a decrease in the horizontal tax interactions parameter, nor to its nonsignificance. Author Affiliation: (1)University of Rennes 1, Faculty of Economics and CREM (UMR CNRS 6211), France. E-mail:matthieu.leprince@univ-rennes1.fr (2)University of Fribourg, Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Switzerland, and University of Rennes 1, CREM (UMR CNRS 6211), France. E-mail:thierry.madies@unifr.ch (3)University of Lille I, Faculty of Economics, EQUIPPE- MEDEE and INRA-CESAER, France. E-mail:sonia.paty@univ-lille1.fr Article History: Received: April 2005; revised: July 2006, December 2006; accepted: December 2006.

Introduction IN 1999, WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO research and write about the topic of business and peace, finding a relevant literature was difficult. There was a rich literature in [...]

Although the concept of corporate social performance (CSP) has become more clearly specified in recent years, an analysis of CSP from the perspective of one particular stakeholder group has been largely ignored in this research: employees. It is proposed that employees merit specific attention with regard to assessments of corporate social performance. In this paper, a model for evaluating and measuring CSP at the employee level is proposed, and implications for evaluating contemporary employment policies and practices are offered. An iterative process for systematically including normative content in the CSP model across stakeholder groups is also offered.

Atomic individualism is embedded in most definitions of stakeholder theory, and as a result, stakeholders are not integral to the basic identity of the corporation which is considered to be independent or, and separate from, its stakeholders. Feminist theory has been suggested as a way of developing a more relational view of the corporation and its stakeholders, but it lacks a systematically developed conceptual framework for undergirding its own insights. Pragmatic philosophy is offered as a way of providing this theoretical undergirding for a relational understanding of the firm and its stakeholders. KEY WORDS: Stakeholder theory progmatism, business and society

A fictional scenario is presented regarding corporate corruption and cultural norms in which industry experts provide advice on how to negotiate a balance between ethical behavior and local expectations. Advice includes communicating clear policies and controls regarding corporate behavior, partnering with other businesses to collectively counter unethical behavior, and working with transnational organizations to eliminate unethical behavior.

Corporate citizenship is explored from a starting point of an analogy with concepts of individual citizenship. Reviewing theories since World War II reveals a shifting perspective: from a focus on [...]

ABSTRACT This paper examines the network structure of overlapping leadership between the corporate business sector and voluntary sector of a growing, non-metropolitan city in the Midwest. The data are from [...]

Many large corporations in the 1930s attempted to control working class public discourse by oppressing alternate media such as labor newspapers. Mass media has continued to move toward a private, for-profit enterprise and the political economy of communication will not support an informed society once that process is complete.

This article examines the cultural characteristic of guanxi in China, focusing on how it is utilized and its impact on interorganizational dynamics and firm performance. The concept of guanxi refers to subtle social networks, and research reveals how these networks are utilized with regard to institutional, organizational, and strategic factors.

Motivated by the substantial changes in the Nigerian banking industry, a survey research was designed to assess the effectiveness of the marketing strategies used by Nigerian banks to cope with the changes in the industry. Overall results from the study show encouraging levels of effectiveness in many dimensions of composite marketing strategies. The findings were discussed along the relevant dimensions of the research, and managerial recommendations were made for efficient and effective marketing strategies in Nigerian banks., INTRODUCTION The deregulation of the Nigerian economy through SAP affected the Nigerian financial system in many ways (Umunnaehila, 1996). These include methods of licensing new banks and financial institutions, the [...]

The author discusses the prospects for art in the 21st Century and predicts the revival of computer-based or new media amateur art as a response to conceptual art. Topics include the influence of Hollywood and geopolitics on the contemporary art scene.

INTRODUCTION Experiential learning has evolved from being an exploratory experimental technique in the 1950s and 60s to being common practice in a variety of learning settings (Graf & Kellogg, 1990). [...]

China's huge economic potential has attracted much investment from international corporations, but western businesses have often been confused by the host business system. An analysis of the strategic implications of guanxi - personal connection, suggests that its importance in the Chinese market may be diminishing. It confirms the view that guanxi and absence of commitment are among the major differences between Chinese and western markets. The study shows that western managers must build up guanxi to aid their competitiveness inside China.

According to a number of observers of the U.S. economy, large publicly traded corporations can be viewed as a social problem primarily because of their association with the concentration of wealth and power. In agriculture, nine states have laws which restrict or proscribe public corporations from engaging in farming. Also, groups and individuals have attempted to preserve non-corporate production enterprises in agriculture through the establishment of direct markets such as farmers' markets. Proponents of such efforts believe public corporations have negative economic impacts; opponents of such efforts, especially efforts to establish and retain anti-corporate farming laws, argue that corporations can provide economic benefits to rural areas. These debates beg the question of whether ownership and direct marketing arrangements have important influences on economic outcomes such as levels of cash returns from farming and increases in the number of farms realizing cash gains. Using multi-year, county-level data from the Census of Agriculture, this study finds that, even when holding a number of important variables constant, ownership arrangements, as well as the interaction between the percentage of total sales which are direct sales and the percentage of farms selling directly, are important determinants of both net cash returns and the percentage of farms realizing cash gains.