Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government

Edited by Matthew Maguire, Associate Professor of Management, Lucas College and Graduate School of Business, San José State University and Graham K. Wilson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

• ContentsIntroduction ixGraham K. Wilson and Matthew Maguire1 Artificial intelligence 1Regine Paul2 Audits as assurance incontemporary regulatorygovernance 7Stefan Renckens and Graeme Auld3 Automation 12Larry Liu4 Business and federal climatechange policies 17David Vogel5 Business and right-wingpopulism 23Daniel Kinderman6 Business case for democracy 31Carl Henrik Knutsen7 Business, corruption, anddemocracy 35Daniel Nyberg8 Business, government, andexperimentalist governance 41Bernardo Rangoni9 Business influence in complexglobal governance 47Maisie Hopkins and Judith Van Erp10 Business lobbying andregulation in the EuropeanUnion 53David Coen and Alexander Katsaitis11 Business power in LatinAmerica 61Jonas Wolff12 Business representation in theUnited Kingdom 67Wyn Grant13 Capitalism and corporate power 73John Mikler14 Competition law and capitalism 79Chase Foster15 Cooperatives 85Simon Pek and Morshed Mannan16 Corporate activism 90Laura Olkkonen17 Corporate and white-collarcrime 95Justin Rex18 Corporate political activity inAfrica 100Tahiru Liedong19 Corporate sense-making andsense-giving of public policies 106Onna Malou van den Broekand Jamie Plaatjes20 Corporate socialirresponsibility 111Giulio Nardella21 Corporate tax avoidance 116Thomas Paster22 Corporate trust andtrustworthiness 122Michael Hadani23 Cultural foundations ofvarieties of capitalism 127Cathie Jo Martin24 Employee ownership 132Simon Pek, Lorin Busaan andMark Clayton Hand25 Environmental governance inChina 137Yixian Sun26 Gig economy 143Andrea M. Herrmann27 Global finance: Changingpractices, actors, andgeographies 149Jan Fichtner and Johannes Petry28 Global industry associations 156Karsten Ronit29 Government regulation of racialinequality in the workplace 163Atinuke O. Adediran30 Growth Models 168Herman Mark Schwartz andBent Sofus Tranøy31 Job insecurity 174Sonia Bertolini32 Migration, capitalism andinequality 179James Hampshire33 Moral hazard and public policy 185Kim Pernell34 The oligarchs, the Kremlin,and Russia’s future 191Stanislav Markus35 Plastics pollution andgovernance 198Jacob Hasselbalch andJoachim Peter Tilsted36 Platform capitalism 204Michael Kemmerling37 The political economy ofinequality 210Bastian Becker38 Populism, business and thetransformation of networkgovernance 216Glenn Morgan and Magnus Feldmann39 Public-private governanceinteractions 223Janina Grabs40 Regulatory capture 231Georg Rilinger41 Regulatory shaming 236Sharon Yadin42 The regulatory state 242Eva Heims43 Revolving door 247Ivana V. Katic44 The role of multistakeholderinitiatives in global governance:Relevance, challenges, andcritical analysis 255Dirk Ulrich Gilbert45 Social movements and activism 263Frank G. A. de Bakker46 Startup capitalism 268Robyn Klingler-Vidra andRamon Pacheco Pardo47 State-business relations in thegreen transition 274Caroline Ahler Christesenand Milan Babić48 Structural power of business 281Keren Borenstein-Nativ49 Sustainable finance 286Daniel Mertens and Nataschavan der Zwan50 Trade unions as economic andpolitical actors 293Dennie Oude Nijhuis51 Transnational litigation 300Phillip Paiement52 Vocational education andtraining 307Merve Sancak53 Welfare states 313Robert Henry Cox54 Working time reduction 317Agnieszka Piasna

‘It would be sufficient just to point to the table of contents – 54 entries about various aspects of business–government relations authored by scholars in multiple disciplines from a baker’s dozen countries. Why, then, did I continue to read them all? Because I found them so interesting, and I was learning so much.’