The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson

Oxford Handbooks

Approaches business-government relations from five different disciplinary perspectives
Contributions from experts in the area from a range of disciplines
Reviews key policy areas
Broad geographical scope

The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson

Description

Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, the study of how business and government relate to each other in different countries is of more central importance than ever.

These relationships have been studied from a number of different disciplinary perspectives--business studies, economics, economic history, law, and political science-- and all of these are represented in this handbook. The first part of the book provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government. The second section, on the firm and the state, looks at how these entities interact in different settings, emphasising such phenomena as the global firm and varieties of capitalism. The third section examines how business interacts with government in different parts of the world, including the United States, the EU, China, Japan and South America. The fourth section reviews changing patterns of market governance through a unifying theme of the role of regulation. Business-government relations can play out in divergent ways in different policy and the fifth section examines the contrasts between different key arenas such as competition policy, trade policy, training policy and environmental policy.

The volume provides an authoritative overview with chapters by leading authorities on the current state of knowledge of business-government relations, but also points to ways in which this work might be developed in the future, e.g., through a political theory of the firm.

About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.

The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson

Oxford Handbooks

Section 1: Disciplinary Perspectives
1. Political Science, David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson
2. Economic History, Wyn Grant and Nicholas Crafts
3. Economics, Christos Pitelis
4. Law, Gregory Shaffer
5. Business Studies, Jonathan Story and Tom Lawton
Section 2: Firm and State
6. Varieties of Capitalism, Bob Hancké
7. The Global Firm, Colin Crouch
8. Political Theory of the Firm, David Hart
9. Business and Parties, Graham Wilson and Wyn Grant
10. Business and Political Representation, Torben Iversen and David Soskice
11. What Happened to Corporatism, Colin Crouch
Section 3: Comparative Business Systems
12. Business Lobby in Washington, Graham Wilson
13. Business Lobby in EU, David Coen
14. South American Business Interests, Ben Schneider
15. Japanese Business and Government Relations, Yuki Hamanda
16. Business Representation in China, Jonathan Story
Section 4: Changing Market Governance
17. Rise of the Regulatory State, Michael Moran
18. International Regulators and Network Governance, Michelle Egan and Pamela Camerra Rowe
19. Financial Regulation: Credit rating Agencies and BIS, Tim Sinclair
20. International Standard Setting Bodies, Walter Mattli and Tim Büthe
21. Taming Globalization: Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism, David Vogel
Section 5: Policy
22. Managers Usually Win: The Comparative Politics of Corporate Control, Pepper Culpepper
23. Corporate Social Responsibility, Jeremy Moon
24. Training Policy, Helen Rainbird
25. Social Policy, Cathie Joe Martin
26. Private Public Partnerships, Carsten Greve
27. Consumer Policy, Gunnar Trumbul
28. Media, Johan Swinnen
29. Environmental and Food Safety Policy, Wyn Grant
30. Utilities and Regulation, Martin Chick
31. Trade Policy, Stephen Magee and Christopher Magee
32. Competition Policy, Stephen Wilks

The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Professor David Coen is Professor of Public Policy at University College London. Prior to joining UCL he held appointments at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute in Cologne and was awarded a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. In recent years he has been a Fulbright distinguished scholar at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard University and visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute, Cologne. His research is recently embedded in the development of models and processes of EU public policy and business government relations. Recent books include Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe (Edward Elgar, 2005) with Adrienne Hertier; EU Lobbying: Theoretical and Empirical Developments (Routledge, 2007); and Lobbying the European Union: Institutions, Actors and Processes (OUP, 2009) edited with Jeremy Richardson.

Professor Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. He has written on government-business relations since the 1970s, including a path-breaking study of the CBI with David Marsh (1977) and a well-regarded book on Business and Politics in Britain (1987, 2nd edition 1993). He has also written extensively on trade policy, agricultural policy, economic policy and environmental policy. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association and was formerly chair of the UK Political Studies Association. His more recent research has been based on interdisciplinary cooperation with biological scientists in projects on biological alternatives to chemical pesticides and the management of cattle diseases.

Professor Graham Wilson is Professor of Political Science at Boston University and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for twenty-five years. He was educated in the UK and began his career at the University of Essex. He has studied business and politics for the last thirty years and is the author of Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction which has appeared in three editions. He has edited Governance and The British Journal of Political Science.