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Politics at Work

How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists

By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

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Politics at Work

How Companies Turn Their Workers into Lobbyists

By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public policy-sometimes in coercive ways. Using a diverse array of evidence, including national surveys of workers and employers, as well as in-depth interviews with top corporate managers, Alexander Hertel-Fernandez's Politics at Work explains why mobilization of workers has become an appealing corporate political strategy in recent decades. The book also assesses the effect of employer mobilization on the political process more broadly, including its consequences for electoral contests, policy debates, and political representation. Hertel-Fernandez shows that while employer political recruitment has some benefits for American democracy-for instance, getting more workers to the polls-it also has troubling implications for our democratic system. Workers face considerable pressure to respond to their managers' political requests because of the economic power employers possess over workers. In spite of these worrisome patterns, Hertel-Fernandez found that corporate managers view the mobilization of their own workers as an important strategy for influencing politics. As he shows, companies consider mobilization of their workers to be even more effective at changing public policy than making campaign contributions or buying electoral ads. Hertel-Fernandez closes with an array of solutions that could protect workers from employer political coercion and could also win the support of majorities of Americans. By carefully examining a growing yet underappreciated political practice, Politics at Work contributes to our understanding of the changing workplace, as well as the increasing power of corporations in American politics. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between inequality, public policy, and American democracy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190635436

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State Capture

How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States--and the Nation

By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

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State Capture

How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States--and the Nation

By: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: The Evolution of ALEC: A Corporate-Conservative Anchor Across the States -- Chapter 1: "The Most Dangerously Effective Organization": A Smart ALEC is Born -- Chapter 2: Policy Plagiarism: A Window into ALEC's Reach Across the U.S. States -- Chapter 3: An Easy A with ALEC: ALEC's Appeal for State Legislators -- Chapter 4: "A Great Investment": ALEC's Appeal for Big Business -- · PART II: The Right-Wing Troika and its Foes -- Chapter 5: A Little Help from Their Friends: Introducing the Right-Wing Troika -- Chapter 6: Transforming the Nation One State at a Time: The Right-Wing Troika and State Policy -- Chapter 7: "Feisty Chihuahuas Versus a Big Gorilla": Why Left-Wing Efforts to Counter the Troika Have Floundered -- Conclusion: State Capture and American Democracy -- Technical Appendix -- Works Cited.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190870796

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9780190870799

Climate Politics and the Impact of Think Tanks

Scientific Expertise in Germany and the US

By: Alexander Ruser

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Climate Politics and the Impact of Think Tanks

Scientific Expertise in Germany and the US

By: Alexander Ruser

This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics. It includes advanced empirical analysis of the case of Germany, compared with the situation in the USA. The book improves the understanding of the role and impact of ‘scientific’ advice in coping with the challenge of anthropogenic climate change.

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179

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Springer

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3319757504

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Innovation Management and the Law

An Institutional Approach

By: Alexander Styhre

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Innovation Management and the Law

An Institutional Approach

By: Alexander Styhre

In economic theory and in management studies, innovation is widely regarded as the motor of economic activities and as being the primary source of renewal in the economic system. This view emphasizes how innovation work is organized in specialized teams inside the firm, or, alternatively, located to start-ups and similar small ventures that are strongly incentivized to innovate to survive. Rather than assuming that innovation work is a mere product of incentives provided by the market system, propelled by the individual and collective skills of the innovation team participants and the resources that they mobilize in their work, this volume examines how a market for innovation ideas is being constructed on the basis of policy making and legislative activities. Innovation Management and the Law examines how the idea of value creation is understood to be a matter of innovation activities and how such innovation activities are premised on legal rights that create not only incentives, corporations, and markets, but also more widely signal to market actors what kind of activities are consistent with policy makers’ economic and social welfare objectives. The volume thus adds to the innovation management literature by introducing a comprehensive analysis of the patent system, illustrating that the patent system is itself an institution and that it should be examined in such terms when studying how innovations are generated on the basis of team production activities and legal rights that are enforceable. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, professionals, and advanced students in the fields of management, economic theory, and law.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040115691

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9781040115695

The Political Constitution of the Corporation

A Management Studies View

By: Alexander Styhre

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The Political Constitution of the Corporation

A Management Studies View

By: Alexander Styhre

In this insightful book, Alexander Styhre examines how corporations, often understood primarily as economic entities or legal devices, seek to influence and shape the market and the wider society in which they operate. Given the scope of such activities in most advanced economies, Styhre argues that corporations are political agents in their own right and that they must be critically analyzed in these terms.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1789900778

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The Business School Curriculum Debate

Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

By: Alexander Styhre

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The Business School Curriculum Debate

Scientific Legitimacy versus Practical Relevance

By: Alexander Styhre

With more than 14,000 business schools worldwide, what is included in their curricula matters for how the economy and the corporate system are managed. Business schools should be subject to scholarly inquiries and critical reflection. While many studies of business schools examine its general role in the tertiary education system and in society more broadly, this volume examines how one specific theoretical perspective and a normative model derived therefrom were developed and gradually appropriated within the business school setting. This volume demonstrates that agency theory, based on a daring conjecture that firms can be construed as bundles of contacts, rose to prominence in the business school context. It examines how the elementary proposition of agency theory, that the firm is to be considered theoretically and practically as a "nexus of contracts," was never consistent with corporate law and contract law, and it was empirically unsubstantiated. Business schools are under pressure to teach not only practically useful theories and models, but also theories that are also scientifically qualified. Despite having this ambition, certain theories are widely taught despite failing to live up to such declared ambitions, which means that business schools may be criticized for including theories on ambiguous grounds in the curricula. This book examines how business schools seek to honour the ambition to teach both scientifically verified theories and practically useful concepts and models, and how the tensions derived from this duality may be problematic to handle. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of management education, organizational studies, and legal theory.

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1000847403

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Book's by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Politics at Work

Politics at Work

State Capture

State Capture

Climate Politics and the Impact of Think Tanks

Climate Politics and the Impact of Think Tanks

Innovation Management and the Law

Innovation Management and the Law

The Political Constitution of the Corporation

The Political Constitution of the Corporation

The Business School Curriculum Debate

The Business School Curriculum Debate

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