The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour

Large economic corporations play a central role in the economies of modern societies. Much of what we consume is produced and marketed by corporations, and many of us are employed by them. Our economic fates appear to be inextricably linked to their actions. Not for the first time, however, corporat...

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Main Authors: BOND, Matthew, GLOUHAROVA, Siana, HARRIGAN, Nicholas
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-18082018-08-15T09:40:58Z The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour BOND, Matthew GLOUHAROVA, Siana HARRIGAN, Nicholas Large economic corporations play a central role in the economies of modern societies. Much of what we consume is produced and marketed by corporations, and many of us are employed by them. Our economic fates appear to be inextricably linked to their actions. Not for the first time, however, corporations are facing pressures to expand the scope of their concerns even further. Two cases neatly illustrate the nature of these pressures. First, movements promoting corporate social responsibility exert pressures on corporations to take account of the negative and positive consequences of their actions to third parties; they are requesting that corporations act as more than pure profit maximisers. Second, political parties of the centre left, influenced by Third Way (Giddens 1998) thinking, have begun perceiving corporations as partners in the implementation of their policy objectives. A British example is the centrality of corporations to the delivery of New Labour’s policies such as the New Deal and the Private Finance Initiative. It appears that trends are developing that could lead to corporations playing a larger role in our lives than they already do. 2006-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/809 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1808/viewcontent/The_Effects_of_Intercorporate_Networks_on_Corporat.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Organizational Behavior and Theory Sociology
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Sociology
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BOND, Matthew
GLOUHAROVA, Siana
HARRIGAN, Nicholas
The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
description Large economic corporations play a central role in the economies of modern societies. Much of what we consume is produced and marketed by corporations, and many of us are employed by them. Our economic fates appear to be inextricably linked to their actions. Not for the first time, however, corporations are facing pressures to expand the scope of their concerns even further. Two cases neatly illustrate the nature of these pressures. First, movements promoting corporate social responsibility exert pressures on corporations to take account of the negative and positive consequences of their actions to third parties; they are requesting that corporations act as more than pure profit maximisers. Second, political parties of the centre left, influenced by Third Way (Giddens 1998) thinking, have begun perceiving corporations as partners in the implementation of their policy objectives. A British example is the centrality of corporations to the delivery of New Labour’s policies such as the New Deal and the Private Finance Initiative. It appears that trends are developing that could lead to corporations playing a larger role in our lives than they already do.
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author BOND, Matthew
GLOUHAROVA, Siana
HARRIGAN, Nicholas
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GLOUHAROVA, Siana
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title The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
title_short The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
title_full The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
title_fullStr The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
title_full_unstemmed The Effects of Intercorporate Networks on Corporate Social and Political Behaviour
title_sort effects of intercorporate networks on corporate social and political behaviour
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2006
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/809
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