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This chapter arises from a more general investigation into the conceptualisation and practices of... more This chapter arises from a more general investigation into the conceptualisation and practices of “everyday life” (hereinafter EDL). I do not detail all the reasons why EDL has become of renewed intellectual interest in recent scholarly activity in the chapter, but I suggest that it has appeared over recent years as a significant element in investigations of how institutions and societies are thought to be configured, organised, and managed. So what this initiates is a different perspective from which to view “European governance”: to move away from notions of aggregated corporatism and neo-corporatism as the forms of societal governance, and, instead, to start from a somewhat different perspective — the EDL of institutions and their configurations.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 25, 2012
Paradigm Publishers, 2010
1. Structures and Powers in the UK: Government at the Centre Richard Heffernan 2. Devolution, Sup... more 1. Structures and Powers in the UK: Government at the Centre Richard Heffernan 2. Devolution, Supranationalism and UK Politics Montserrat Guibernau 3. The Politics of Participation in the UK Mads Qvortrup 4. The Politics of Power: Policy Networks and Interest Representation in the UK Grahame Thompson 5. The Politics of Constitutional Reform Jeremy Mitchell.
Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy ag... more Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy agenda as we enter the late 1990s. The Economic Emergence of a New Europe? explores the arguments and forms of analysis deployed by those who have been pressing for closer integration since the early 1980s.
The budget influences decisions analysis and effects of policies 1 - taxes and subsidies analysis... more The budget influences decisions analysis and effects of policies 1 - taxes and subsidies analysis and effects of policies 2 - competition and privatization tax reform - UK and USA.
1. Objectives and Instruments of Economic Management 2. The Analysis of Economic Management: The ... more 1. Objectives and Instruments of Economic Management 2. The Analysis of Economic Management: The Aggregate Demand and Supply Model 3. The Determinants of the Natural Rate of Unemployment 4. Demand-Deficient Unemployment 5. Unemployment and Technology 6. Inflation and Unemployment 7. Controlling the Money Supply 8. Managing the Open Economy 9. The Supply Side and Industrial Policy 10. Some Reflections on the AD/AS Model.
The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, 2020
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This statement has been coordinated together with other disciplinary statement by Dr. Jeroen Veld... more This statement has been coordinated together with other disciplinary statement by Dr. Jeroen Veldman, Modern Corporation Project, which is hosted by Cass Business School, City University, London to support the Purpose of the Corporation Project: purposeofcorporation.org. It may be endorsed at: themoderncorporation.org The Modern Corporation Statement on Management BACKGROUND The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as agents for the owners. Emerging as a self-styled 'profession', there was a continuous debate around the necessity for the corporation to be responsible to the collective and to its stakeholders. During long parts of the twentieth century the professed intent was to balance and synthesize a plurality of interests in order to ensure the long term survival and success of the corporation, pursue national strategic interests, create employment, support networks of suppliers, develop new technology as well as create an adequate or satisfactory return for shareholders (Marens, 2012; O Sullivan, 2001).
The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?, 2012
The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?, 2012
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This chapter investigates the political manifestations of networks, particularly as they pertain ... more This chapter investigates the political manifestations of networks, particularly as they pertain to the governance of organisational and economic matters. The idea of ‘policy networks’ is examined and how they operate. Specifically, the chapter explores how the internal structure of decision-making is organised, much of which has a resonance outside of policy networks proper to address how networks more widely might operate. The chapter also lays out the principles and trends associated with the issue of how to place networks in a wider context of other socio-organisational mechanisms of management and regulation. Finally, the chapter opens up on the issues of power in political networks, something that pervades these forms of organisational entity just as it does hierarchies and markets. Networks of political power and authority are discussed, along with policy networks and the formation of public policy, multi-level governance, network forms of governance and game theory, and soci...
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This chapter looks at the industrial organisation as networks, focusing on interorganisational ne... more This chapter looks at the industrial organisation as networks, focusing on interorganisational networks. Some theoretical issues raised by interorganisational networks are discussed, including questions of the limits of an institutional analysis, knowledge with respect to these kinds of networks, the role of complementary and self-organisation, evolutionary approaches to networks, and problems associated with embeddedness and variety production that they pose. The chapter also explores how the network model has been deployed in the specification and analysis of the relationships between firms and other agents that occupy the microeconomic field of economic organisation. The strengths of networks as opposed to other mechanisms of socio-economic coordination, like markets and hierarchies, in organising inter-firm relationships are also considered, along with cooperation and trust between main firms and their subcontractors and suppliers, knowledge and innovation in networks, whether k...
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This book brings some clarity to the discussion of networks. It tests the case as to whether it i... more This book brings some clarity to the discussion of networks. It tests the case as to whether it is possible to construct a clearly demarcated idea of a ‘network’ as a separable form of socio-economic coordination and governance mechanism with its own distinctive logic. In doing this, the primary contrast is to markets and hierarchies as alternative and already well-understood forms of such socio-economic coordination each with its own particular logic. Thus, the focus is on the domain of the socio-economic (which includes political aspects of networks), and it is about the organisational domain of the socio-economic. A distinction is made between network as a conceptual category and network as a social organisation. Three approaches to networks are considered: social network analysis, transaction cost analysis, and actor-network theory. Finally, the book explores the whole area of information and communications technology and networks and how they are argued to be radically transfor...
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 1998
How have we come to know the economy and the ®rm? This is the question confronted in this article... more How have we come to know the economy and the ®rm? This is the question confronted in this article. The argument is that it is through forms of visualisation (tables, charts, ®gures, diagrams, pictures and so on) that our knowledge and sense about the ®rm and the economy are constructed. Accounting and economics texts abound with these visual techniques, which gives them a certain af®nity. Common techniques of visualization shared by both accounting and economics are used as a basis for a re¯ection on the theoretical and practical nature of the``encounter'' between these two intellectual domains. The term``encounter'' is used instead of the more obvious term``relationship'' to indicate the contingent and problematic character of the common use of visual techniques. These encounters are situated within a framework that stresses the epistemic diversity of the forms of visualisation and their meaning. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved On what``table'', according to what grid of identities, similitudes and analogies have we become accustomed to sort out so many different and similar things? What is this coherenceÐwhich, as is immediately apparent, is neither determined by an a priori and necessary concatenation, nor imposed on us by any immediately perceptible contents? (Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, p. xix).
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This book addresses major modern controversies in corporate governance, clarifying the issues at ... more This book addresses major modern controversies in corporate governance, clarifying the issues at stake and assessing the arguments for corporate reform. The main focus is on governance of the large organizations that employ the majority of workforces in developed economies and which account for most of the finance and refinance of the private sector. Shareholder value and shareholder primacy are now under increasing scrutiny having previously been positioned as natural precepts of governance. The book joins that debate with a critique and also with suggestions for company reform that allow for plurality within jurisdictions: the trust firm, industrial foundations, social enterprises, the ‘benefit corporation’, restricted voting rights, employee representation etc. The book addresses several sets of controversies in corporate governance. Part 1 places the corporate form within the context of legal constitution and governmental regulation. The second set of chapters considers corporat...
This chapter arises from a more general investigation into the conceptualisation and practices of... more This chapter arises from a more general investigation into the conceptualisation and practices of “everyday life” (hereinafter EDL). I do not detail all the reasons why EDL has become of renewed intellectual interest in recent scholarly activity in the chapter, but I suggest that it has appeared over recent years as a significant element in investigations of how institutions and societies are thought to be configured, organised, and managed. So what this initiates is a different perspective from which to view “European governance”: to move away from notions of aggregated corporatism and neo-corporatism as the forms of societal governance, and, instead, to start from a somewhat different perspective — the EDL of institutions and their configurations.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 25, 2012
Paradigm Publishers, 2010
1. Structures and Powers in the UK: Government at the Centre Richard Heffernan 2. Devolution, Sup... more 1. Structures and Powers in the UK: Government at the Centre Richard Heffernan 2. Devolution, Supranationalism and UK Politics Montserrat Guibernau 3. The Politics of Participation in the UK Mads Qvortrup 4. The Politics of Power: Policy Networks and Interest Representation in the UK Grahame Thompson 5. The Politics of Constitutional Reform Jeremy Mitchell.
Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy ag... more Questions of European economic and political integration have been placed firmly on the policy agenda as we enter the late 1990s. The Economic Emergence of a New Europe? explores the arguments and forms of analysis deployed by those who have been pressing for closer integration since the early 1980s.
The budget influences decisions analysis and effects of policies 1 - taxes and subsidies analysis... more The budget influences decisions analysis and effects of policies 1 - taxes and subsidies analysis and effects of policies 2 - competition and privatization tax reform - UK and USA.
1. Objectives and Instruments of Economic Management 2. The Analysis of Economic Management: The ... more 1. Objectives and Instruments of Economic Management 2. The Analysis of Economic Management: The Aggregate Demand and Supply Model 3. The Determinants of the Natural Rate of Unemployment 4. Demand-Deficient Unemployment 5. Unemployment and Technology 6. Inflation and Unemployment 7. Controlling the Money Supply 8. Managing the Open Economy 9. The Supply Side and Industrial Policy 10. Some Reflections on the AD/AS Model.
The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics, 2020
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
This statement has been coordinated together with other disciplinary statement by Dr. Jeroen Veld... more This statement has been coordinated together with other disciplinary statement by Dr. Jeroen Veldman, Modern Corporation Project, which is hosted by Cass Business School, City University, London to support the Purpose of the Corporation Project: purposeofcorporation.org. It may be endorsed at: themoderncorporation.org The Modern Corporation Statement on Management BACKGROUND The rise of modern corporations has been accompanied by an expansion of salaried executives who have replaced owner-managers. With this expansion, the new class of managers/executives came to regard themselves as stewards of large and complex corporations, and not principally or exclusively as agents for the owners. Emerging as a self-styled 'profession', there was a continuous debate around the necessity for the corporation to be responsible to the collective and to its stakeholders. During long parts of the twentieth century the professed intent was to balance and synthesize a plurality of interests in order to ensure the long term survival and success of the corporation, pursue national strategic interests, create employment, support networks of suppliers, develop new technology as well as create an adequate or satisfactory return for shareholders (Marens, 2012; O Sullivan, 2001).
The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?, 2012
The Constitutionalization of the Global Corporate Sphere?, 2012
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This chapter investigates the political manifestations of networks, particularly as they pertain ... more This chapter investigates the political manifestations of networks, particularly as they pertain to the governance of organisational and economic matters. The idea of ‘policy networks’ is examined and how they operate. Specifically, the chapter explores how the internal structure of decision-making is organised, much of which has a resonance outside of policy networks proper to address how networks more widely might operate. The chapter also lays out the principles and trends associated with the issue of how to place networks in a wider context of other socio-organisational mechanisms of management and regulation. Finally, the chapter opens up on the issues of power in political networks, something that pervades these forms of organisational entity just as it does hierarchies and markets. Networks of political power and authority are discussed, along with policy networks and the formation of public policy, multi-level governance, network forms of governance and game theory, and soci...
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This chapter looks at the industrial organisation as networks, focusing on interorganisational ne... more This chapter looks at the industrial organisation as networks, focusing on interorganisational networks. Some theoretical issues raised by interorganisational networks are discussed, including questions of the limits of an institutional analysis, knowledge with respect to these kinds of networks, the role of complementary and self-organisation, evolutionary approaches to networks, and problems associated with embeddedness and variety production that they pose. The chapter also explores how the network model has been deployed in the specification and analysis of the relationships between firms and other agents that occupy the microeconomic field of economic organisation. The strengths of networks as opposed to other mechanisms of socio-economic coordination, like markets and hierarchies, in organising inter-firm relationships are also considered, along with cooperation and trust between main firms and their subcontractors and suppliers, knowledge and innovation in networks, whether k...
Between Hierarchies and Markets, 2003
This book brings some clarity to the discussion of networks. It tests the case as to whether it i... more This book brings some clarity to the discussion of networks. It tests the case as to whether it is possible to construct a clearly demarcated idea of a ‘network’ as a separable form of socio-economic coordination and governance mechanism with its own distinctive logic. In doing this, the primary contrast is to markets and hierarchies as alternative and already well-understood forms of such socio-economic coordination each with its own particular logic. Thus, the focus is on the domain of the socio-economic (which includes political aspects of networks), and it is about the organisational domain of the socio-economic. A distinction is made between network as a conceptual category and network as a social organisation. Three approaches to networks are considered: social network analysis, transaction cost analysis, and actor-network theory. Finally, the book explores the whole area of information and communications technology and networks and how they are argued to be radically transfor...
Accounting, Organizations and Society, 1998
How have we come to know the economy and the ®rm? This is the question confronted in this article... more How have we come to know the economy and the ®rm? This is the question confronted in this article. The argument is that it is through forms of visualisation (tables, charts, ®gures, diagrams, pictures and so on) that our knowledge and sense about the ®rm and the economy are constructed. Accounting and economics texts abound with these visual techniques, which gives them a certain af®nity. Common techniques of visualization shared by both accounting and economics are used as a basis for a re¯ection on the theoretical and practical nature of the``encounter'' between these two intellectual domains. The term``encounter'' is used instead of the more obvious term``relationship'' to indicate the contingent and problematic character of the common use of visual techniques. These encounters are situated within a framework that stresses the epistemic diversity of the forms of visualisation and their meaning. # 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved On what``table'', according to what grid of identities, similitudes and analogies have we become accustomed to sort out so many different and similar things? What is this coherenceÐwhich, as is immediately apparent, is neither determined by an a priori and necessary concatenation, nor imposed on us by any immediately perceptible contents? (Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, p. xix).
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This book addresses major modern controversies in corporate governance, clarifying the issues at ... more This book addresses major modern controversies in corporate governance, clarifying the issues at stake and assessing the arguments for corporate reform. The main focus is on governance of the large organizations that employ the majority of workforces in developed economies and which account for most of the finance and refinance of the private sector. Shareholder value and shareholder primacy are now under increasing scrutiny having previously been positioned as natural precepts of governance. The book joins that debate with a critique and also with suggestions for company reform that allow for plurality within jurisdictions: the trust firm, industrial foundations, social enterprises, the ‘benefit corporation’, restricted voting rights, employee representation etc. The book addresses several sets of controversies in corporate governance. Part 1 places the corporate form within the context of legal constitution and governmental regulation. The second set of chapters considers corporat...
Thesis Eleven, 2021
Commercial companies are increasingly being recognized as agents of societal governance operating... more Commercial companies are increasingly being recognized as agents of societal governance operating alongside the public authorities in their traditional role as governance bodies. In addition, companies are claiming to be 'corporate citizens' in the way they deal with their environmental, employment and social/ ethical responsibilities. Given the fact that large corporations are now heavily internationalized in their operational characteristics-with branches, subsidiaries, affiliates and extended supply chains operating in multiple jurisdictions-can such organizations be brought into a democratic register? Citizenship and democracy are conventionally associated with a territorial state, national sovereignty and jurisdictional independence. So how can internatonalized companies be subject to democratic forms of governance? An added problem arises with platform companies and block-chain organized digital currency providers who's operations transcend national borders from the start. This contribution discusses the issues and provides a way for considering corporate democracy afresh in these rapidly evolving contexts.