Corporate Business and Capitalist ClassesOUP Oxford, 1997 M02 6 - 382 páginas Large multinational corporations shape our lives to an enormous extent. How is the growth, power, and significance of big business to be explained and understood? Focusing on the issues of ownership, control, and class formation, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes explores the implications of changes in the nature of big business, which affect both the businesses themselves, and the economic and political milieu in which these multinationals operate. Up-to-date empirical evidence is reviewed in a wide-ranging comparative framework that covers Britain and the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and many other societies, including emerging forms of capitalism in China and Russia. Unlike other specialist texts in the area, Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes relates its concerns to issues of social stratification and class structure. The first and second editions of the book (under the title Corportations, Classes and Capitalism) were enthusiastically received, and the present edition reviews new theoretical ideas and empirical evidence that has emerged in the ten years since the second edition appeared. The text has been completely re-written and re-structured, and it relates its concerns to contemporary debates over `disorganized capitalism' and post-industrialism. |
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... held by multiple directors in Europe ( 1976 ) Distribution of directorships in the Netherlands ( 1886–1969 ) Strategic control in the 200 largest French industrial enterprises ( 1971 ) 41 42 147 149 154 161 43 133 Strategic control in ...
... held by multiple directors in Europe ( 1976 ) Distribution of directorships in the Netherlands ( 1886–1969 ) Strategic control in the 200 largest French industrial enterprises ( 1971 ) 41 42 147 149 154 161 43 133 Strategic control in ...
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... held that the legal institution of property comprises a set of legal imperatives that regulate the ' detention ' of , or access to , social objects . The legal relation of ' ownership ' , then , comprises a person's all - embracing ...
... held that the legal institution of property comprises a set of legal imperatives that regulate the ' detention ' of , or access to , social objects . The legal relation of ' ownership ' , then , comprises a person's all - embracing ...
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... held that there had been a fusion of banking and indus- try into ' finance capital ' , a process that removed most of the share- holding capitalists even further from actual production . According to Lenin , industrial enterprises were ...
... held that there had been a fusion of banking and indus- try into ' finance capital ' , a process that removed most of the share- holding capitalists even further from actual production . According to Lenin , industrial enterprises were ...
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... held , are units of ' monopoly capital ' , not of ' finance capital ' . A monopoly enterprise has considerable power in its markets , but it is still constrained by the countervailing power of other monopoly enterprises . This effec ...
... held , are units of ' monopoly capital ' , not of ' finance capital ' . A monopoly enterprise has considerable power in its markets , but it is still constrained by the countervailing power of other monopoly enterprises . This effec ...
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... held in check by their subordination to proprietary and banking interests ( Veblen 1919 ; see also Banks 1959 ) . For Veblen , the creative powers of indus- trial craftsmanship could be released by liberating them from finan- cial ...
... held in check by their subordination to proprietary and banking interests ( Veblen 1919 ; see also Banks 1959 ) . For Veblen , the creative powers of indus- trial craftsmanship could be released by liberating them from finan- cial ...
Contenido
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STRUCTURES OF CORPORATE CONTROL | 35 |
CORPORATE CONSTELLATIONS IN | 56 |
STRUCTURES OF FINANCE CAPITAL | 107 |
The City and Corporate Power in Britain | 115 |
103 | 130 |
The Japanese Pattern | 181 |
The Chinese Pattern | 196 |
MANAGERS NETWORKS AND HIERARCHIES | 204 |
DISORGANIZATION DISARTICULATION | 237 |
Concentration and Economic Disorganization | 255 |
State Intervention and Deregulation | 262 |
THE CORPORATION AND CAPITALIST CLASSES | 274 |
Bibliography | 314 |
VARIANT PATTERNS OF CAPITALIST | 141 |
The Latin Pattern | 155 |
The PostCommunist Pattern | 170 |
Index | 367 |
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Página 36 - Strategy can be defined as the determination of the basic long-term goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of courses of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals.
Página 22 - Stock companies in general — developed with the credit system — have an increasing tendency to separate this work of management as a function 1 Capital, III, pp.
Página 25 - As banking develops and becomes concentrated in a small number of establishments, the banks grow from modest middlemen into powerful monopolies having at their command almost the whole of the money capital of all the capitalists and small businessmen and also the larger part of the means of production and sources of raw materials in any one country and in a number of countries.
Página 31 - The separation of ownership from control produces a condition where the interests of owner and of ultimate manager may, and often do, diverge, and where many of the checks which formerly operated to limit the use of power disappear.
Página 33 - In many sectors of the economy the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith referred to as the invisible hand of market forces.
Página 48 - In its purest form, the first is based upon influence derived exclusively from the possession of goods or marketable skills guaranteed in some way and acting upon the conduct of those dominated, who remain, however, formally free and are motivated simply by the pursuit of their own interests.
Página 265 - The socialization of costs and the private appropriation of profits creates a fiscal crisis, or 'structural gap', between state expenditures and state revenues. The result is a tendency for state expenditures to increase more rapidly than the means of financing them.
Página 30 - ... language, from the legal right to enjoy its fruits. Control of physical assets has passed from the individual owner to those who direct the quasi-public institutions, while the owner retains an interest in their product and increase. We see, in fact, the surrender and regrouping of the incidence of ownership, which formerly bracketed full power of manual disposition with complete right to enjoy the use, the fruits, and the proceeds of physical assets.
Página 23 - Without any change in the norm, . . . ade facto right is added to the personal absolute domination over a corporeal thing. This right is not based upon a special legal provision. It is the power of control, the power to issue commands and to enforce them.