Format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780195040333
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9780195364927
Content:
This book delineates the "inner circle" of top executives who play a leading role in the international corporate network by promoting a political environment favorable to all business
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- CHAPTER 1. Organizing Business -- The United States and the United Kingdom -- Images of Business Unity -- Principles of Social Organization -- Classwide Corporate Leadership -- Sources of Information -- CHAPTER 2. The Economic and Social Foundation: Corporate Ownership, Concentration, and Interlocking Directorship -- The Separation of Ownership and Control -- Economic Foundation: The Concentration of Corporate Resources -- Social Foundation: The Interlocking Directorate -- The Interlocking Directorate and Business Scan -- Outside Directorships and Upward Promotions -- The Origins of Invitations to Join a Corporate Board -- The Interlocking Directorate as a Communication Network -- Networks and Classwide Social Organization -- CHAPTER 3. Inner Circle Organization -- The Power Elite -- The Fundamentals of Inner-Circle Action -- The Power of Multiple Corporate Connections -- The Social Cohesion of the Inner Circle -- The Upper Class and the Inner Circle -- Inner-Circle Leadership of the Major Business Associations -- Inner-Circle Organization -- CHAPTER 4. The Leading Edge of Business Political Activity -- Advisory Service to the National Government -- Governance of Nonprofit Organizations -- Political Parties and Candidates -- Contact with the Media -- The Informal Screening of Business Contact with the Government -- The Inner Circle Favors Its Own -- Transcorporate Experience and Business-Association Leadership are Prerequisites -- The Route to the Inner Circle -- How to Identify a Member of the Inner Circle -- The View from the Inner Circle -- The Leading Edge -- CHAPTER 5. Classwide Politics and Corporate Decision-Making -- Noncorporate Criteria in Corporate Decision-Making -- Corporate Philanthropy -- Which Companies Give? -- Soliciting Corporate Contributions -- Issue Advertising
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Political Contributions and Political Action Committees -- Pressuring the Corporation -- The Dual Logic of Corporate and Classwide Decision Criteria -- CHAPTER 6. The Challenge of Profits, Labor, and Government -- Declining Company Profits -- The Challenge to British Labor -- The Challenge of Regulation in the United States -- The Mobilization of Business -- CHAPTER 7. Family, Managerial, and Institutional Capitalism -- Three Stages of Development in the United States -- Two and One-Half Stages of Development in the United Kingdom -- Institutional Capitalism and Classwide Politics -- Appendix: British and American Corporations Studied -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Useem, Michael The Inner Circle Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c1986 ISBN 9780195040333
Language:
English
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