Kean Birch (Canada York University), Mark Peacock, Richard Wellen (Canada York University)

Business and Society

A Critical Introduction
Mitarbeit:Birch, Kean; Wellen, Richard; Peacock, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

Ideal for undergraduates, this introductory textbook comprehensively examines the often fraught and contentious relationship between business and society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zed Books
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9781783604487
• ISBN-10: 1783604484
• Artikelnr.: 42835246

Autorenporträt

Kean Birch is an associate professor in the Business and Society programme at York University, Canada. His recent books include: We Have Never Been Neoliberal (2015); The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, co-edited with Simon Springer and Julie MacLeavy); and Innovation, Regional Development and the Life Sciences: Beyond Clusters (2016). Caroline Shenaz Hossein is an assistant professor in the Business and Society programme in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada. She is the author of Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power and Violence in the Black Americas (2016). Mark Peacock is professor in the Business and Society programme at York University, Canada. His research interests include the philosophy of economics and the theory and origins of money. He recently published the book Introducing Money (2013). Alberto Salazar is an assistant professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Canada. His most recent publications appear in the American Journal of Comparative Law and Osgoode Legal Studies Research Papers. Sonya Scott is a sessional assistant professor in the Business and Society programme at York University, Canada. She is the author of Architectures of Economic Subjectivity: The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought (2013). Richard Wellen is an associate professor in the Business and Society programme at York University, Canada. His recent research deals with the political economy of higher education as well as transformations and alternatives in scholarly publishing markets. His books include Making Policy in Turbulent Times: Challenges and Prospects for Higher Education (2013, co-edited with Paul Axelrod, Theresa Shanahan and Roopa Deesai-Trilokekar).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Critical Introduction to Business and Society
1. The Emergence of Capitalism in Western Europe
2. The Spread of Capitalism
3. The Corporate Revolution
4. Corporate Governance
5. Corporate Responsibility
6. Corporate Power
7. Global Economy and Varieties of Capitalism
8. Global Governance
9. Global Environmental Change
10. Markets and Economic Order
11. Economics, Capitalism and Business: The Orthodoxy
12. Political Economy and Critiques of Capitalism: Heterodox Perspectives
13. Business, Regulation and Policy
14. Ethics and Business
15. Business and Social Exclusion
16. Resistance and Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism
17. Social Economy
18. Rethinking Ownership: The Market vs. the Commons

Rezensionen

'The ideal user's guide to the modern world and how we got here. It untangles the thicket of politics and corporate power and gives readers cogent intellectual arguments and an inspiring message that change is possible and already happening.'
Katherine Trebeck, Oxfam GB

'A fresh, topical and highly engaging introduction to the vital issues surrounding the business world. There is much food for thought in this book: every student of business should read it.'
Geoffrey Hodgson, author of Conceptualizing Capitalism: Institutions, Evolution, Future

'Goes beyond conventional accounts to critically expose the complex realities of the relationship between business and society. With clarity and originality, the authors illuminate the role of business for shaping society both in the past and present.'
Sara Gorgoni, University of Greenwich

'A most serviceable compass, timely and effective, for a time in which we are constantly told that society should be treated as just another type of business.'
Fabian Muniesa, Ecole des Mines de Paris

'Offers a wide ranging introductory interdisciplinary text for the study of the modern world. Rich in conceptual debate, it provides students with incisive analysis and criticism. This is the antidote to the anodyne business school textbook.'
Liam Campling, Queen Mary University of London

'In this tremendous text, Kean Birch and his colleagues show us why we must understand economic activity as embedded in political decisions. This book should be compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand how another business world is possible.'
Martin Parker, University of Leicester