Solidarity in Strategy Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Informationen zum Autor Lyn Spillman is associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient! she is also the author of Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia and the editor of Cultural Sociology. Klappentext Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. This work reveals an unexpected truth about capitalist society: protecting and promoting the profits of its member businesses are only two of the many functions these associations serve. Zusammenfassung Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. This work reveals an unexpected truth about capitalist society: protecting and promoting the profits of its member businesses are only two of the many functions these associations serve.

Product details

• Authors: Spillman Lyn, Lyn (University of Notre Dame) Spillman, Lyn Spillman
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.08.2012
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management
• EAN: 9780226769561
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76956-1
• Pages: 536
• Subjects: USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Trade Unions, business strategy, United States of America, USA, Economic systems and structures, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions