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THE POLITICAL POWER OF GLOBAL CORPORATIONS
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| By: |
John Mikler |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0745698476 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780745698472 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
12 February, 2018 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Synopsis: |
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 hailWe 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polity Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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