The inner circle : large corporations and the rise of business political activity in the U.S. and U.K. / Michael Useem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Useem, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporations--Political activity--United States.

Corporations.

Corporations--Political activity--Great Britain.

Big business--United States.

Big business.

Big business--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p. ) tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1984.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a sophisticated and informative analysis of the 'inner circle' of top American executives who play a leading role in the international corporate network by promoting a political environment favourable to all business. This paperback edition is a reissue of the prizewinning hardback volume which appeared in 1984.

Contents:

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.

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-280-52313-1

0-19-802046-5

9786610523139

0-19-536492-9

OCLC:

960165041