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Corporate Community (corporate + community)

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Humanities and Social Sciences80%

Selected Abstracts

Corporate Community or Corporate Houses?

CULTURE, AGRICULTURE, FOOD & ENVIRONMENT, Issue 1 2005
Stephen M. Perkins
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Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization

ANTIPODE, Issue 4 2010
William K. Carroll
Abstract:, This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of internationalized finance capital; and the embeddedness of corporate Europe in the global corporate network. Although the transnational European network gained in strength while national networks eroded, expansion of the European network did not negate a structure of representation favoring the northwest. Bankers became less dominant, yet industrialists with financial connections formed the core of the European corporate community, signaling a departure from national corporate communities centered upon banks. At the threshold of the current economic crisis, corporate Europe comprised the most integrated segment of the global corporate elite. [source]

Ethics and Altruism: What Constitutes Socially Responsible Design?

DESIGN MANAGEMENT REVIEW, Issue 3 2005
Rachel Cooper
Businesses are making responsible design an explicit feature of their development processes and long-term competitive strategies. Initiatives range from responding to the needs of less privileged and underserved constituencies to design for safety and design against crime. Rachel Cooper surveys these perspectives, their sources, and the effects they are having on the design profession, the corporate community, and society in general. [source]

MANAGERIAL STRUCTURE OF BUSINESS GROUPS IN TAIWAN: THE INNER CIRCLE SYSTEM AND ITS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

THE DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, Issue 1 2003
CHI-NIEN CHUNG
This paper examined the management structure of Taiwan's business groups. The objective was to determine how independent group firms coordinate their business. Employing longitudinal data of the top 100 groups, I investigated the "inner circle" system and its evolution. I found that group leaders occupied overlapped positions at the director rather than at the manager level, which implied a separation of strategic planning and routine administration. Secondly, the dynamics of inner circle management did not hinge upon the group president as in the Korean chaebol, nor on the norm of corporate community as in the Japanese keiretsu, but on the social ties in the inner circle. Analyzing the background of the leaders indicated that family never dominated the scene even in the early years, and their significance decreased along with environmental changes. The transition in Taiwan in the late 1980s motivated business groups to introduce more "outside" talent into decision-making. [source]

Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization

ANTIPODE, Issue 4 2010
William K. Carroll
Abstract:, This article explores the emerging shape and form of the European corporate community since 1996. We examine the cohesion of corporate Europe through the network of interlocking corporate directorates and memberships in the European Round Table of Industrialists. We focus on the unequal structure of representation; the interplay of national and transnational aspects of the network; the role of finance capitalists as a signpost of a regime of internationalized finance capital; and the embeddedness of corporate Europe in the global corporate network. Although the transnational European network gained in strength while national networks eroded, expansion of the European network did not negate a structure of representation favoring the northwest. Bankers became less dominant, yet industrialists with financial connections formed the core of the European corporate community, signaling a departure from national corporate communities centered upon banks. At the threshold of the current economic crisis, corporate Europe comprised the most integrated segment of the global corporate elite. [source]