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Business, Society and Global Governance is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Building Business-Government Relations: A Skills Approach to ensure this successful book continues to be the go-to textbook introducing US business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States.
List of contents
Preface Introduction PART I Introduction to Business-Government Relations
1 Comparing the Roles of Business and Government
2 Theories about Business-Government Relations in Society
3 Historical Development of Government's Roles with Business
4 Economic Policies
PART II Business-Nonprofit-Government Relations in the Sociopolitical Arena
5 Protection of Consumer, Employee, and the Environment
6 Corporate Social Responsibility: Doing Well
and Doing Good
7 Business's Involvement in Government
8 The Third Sector-Nonprofit Organizations
PART III Business-Government Relations in Economic Development
9 Economic Development
10 Industrial Development
11 Public Entrepreneurs and Privatization
PART IV Business-Government-Nonprofit Relations in the Global Market
12 Globalization and Free Trade
13 Examples of and Challenges for Trade Regimes in the World
14 Business and Global Governance
About the author
Anna Ya Ni is the Associate Dean and Professor of public administration at the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. She has published over 20 research articles in journals, such as
Public Administration Review,
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,
American Review of Public Administration, and
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. She serves on the Board of American Society of Public Administration (ASPA), Section of Science and Technology in Government (SSTIG), and the Inland Empire Chapter.
Montgomery Van Wart is a Professor in the Department of Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino. He served as Chair of his department and Dean of the College of Business and Public Administration. He has authored 11 books including
Dynamics of Leadership,
Leadership in Public Organizations,
Administrative Leadership in the Public Sector (with Dicke), and
Human Resource Management in Public Service (with Berman, Bowman, and West). He has over 100 publications and has been a distinguished visiting professor at KU Leuven, the University of Hong Kong, Rutgers, and the University of Ireland.
Summary
Business, Society and Global Governance is a thoroughly revised and updated new edition of Building Business-Government Relations: A Skills Approach to ensure this successful book continues to be the go-to textbook introducing US business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States.
