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A practical guide on how to conduct research on the impact of corporations on global health and global health governance, which draws on the theoretical and methodological insights of a range of scholarly disciplines.
List of contents
Preface / List of acronyms / List of illustrations / 1. Corporations and global health governance: A research agenda, Lee, Hawkins and Wiist / PART I: DISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO ANALYSING CORPORATIONS / 2. Political science, Hawkins / 3. International political economy, Eckhardt / 4. Social Policy, Holden and Farnsworth / 5. Historical analysis, MacKenzie / 6. Criminology, Michalowski / 7. Anthropology, Parker and Kenworthy / 8. Public health, Wipfli and Mack / 9. Development Studies, Carnegie / 10. Media analysis and corporate communication, Kline / PART II: METHODS AND DATA SOURCES FOR ANALYSING CORPORATIONS / 11. Interviewing key informants from the corporate sector, Hawkins and Cassidy / 12. The role of ethnography in analysing corporations, Carrillo Botero / 13. Oral history, Stevenson / 14. Participation of corporations in international organizations, Derman / 15. Studying the influence of corporations on democratic processes, Wiist / 16. Analysing corporate documents, MacKenzie and Holden / 17. Social media research methods, Freeman / 18. Making use of business and financial data, Lee / 19. Using freedom of information requests, Freeman / 20. Tracking down and using grey literature, Taylor and Sullivan / 21. Legal and ethical considerations, Lee, Hawkins & Silva / 22. Developing a data management plan, Carrillo Botero and Fang /About the Contributors / Index
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Edited by Kelley Lee and Benjamin Hawkins
Summary
A practical guide on how to conduct research on the impact of corporations on global health and global health governance, which draws on the theoretical and methodological insights of a range of scholarly disciplines.
