Pervasive powers : the politics of corporate authority / edited by Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, and Valentin Thomas.

"In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the...

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Other Authors: Aguiton, Sara Angeli (Editor), Déplaude, Marc-Olivier, 1975- (Editor), Jas, Nathalie (Editor), Henry, Emmanuel (Editor), Thomas, Valentin, 1991- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge international studies in business history.
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Table of Contents:
  • The pervasiveness of corporate authority: repertoire of actions, material effects, and democratic challenges / Sara Angeli Aguiton, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, Nathalie Jas, Emmanuel Henry, and Valentin Thomas
  • The making of the Spanish pesticide industry during the early Francoist dictatorship: experts, autarky, agnotology, and fascism / José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez
  • Corporate systemic ascendancy. Perspectives from the pesticides industry in post-war France / Nathalie Jas
  • From research funding to public relations: the making of a food industry think tank in 1970s France / Thomas Depecker, Marc-Olivier Déplaude, and Nicolas Larchet
  • From public problem to quiet politics? How U.S. automobile insurers mobilized for regulation of the industry (1959-1974) / Stève Bernardin
  • Co-producing the rules of the game: state, insurance companies and private equity in 1990s France / Marlène Benquet, Paul Lagneau Ymonet, and Fabien Foureault
  • Transnational professional service firms and the corporatization of infrastructure procurement / Chris Hurl and Anne Vogelpohl.