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30 Sep 1997
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how actors are synthesized by actors in the military sector, the environmental sector, economic sector, socio-economic sector, and the political sector.
Abstract: Security Analysis: Conceptual Apparatus The Military Sector The Environmental Sector The Economic Sector The Societal Sector The Political Sector How Sectors are Synthesized by Actors.
4,006 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of commercial and social entrepreneurship using a prevailing analytical model from commercial entrepreneurship is presented, highlighting key similarities and differences between these two forms of entrepreneurship and presents a framework on how to approach the social entrepreneurial process more systematically and effectively.
Abstract: Entrepreneurship has been the engine propelling much of the growth of the business sector as well as a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the social sector. This article offers a comparative analysis of commercial and social entrepreneurship using a prevailing analytical model from commercial entrepreneurship. The analysis highlights key similarities and differences between these two forms of entrepreneurship and presents a framework on how to approach the social entrepreneurial process more systematically and effectively. We explore the implications of this analysis of social entrepreneurship for both practitioners and researchers.
2,628 citations
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper demonstrate that managers' micro interpersonal ties with top executives at other firms and with government officials help improve macro organizational performance using survey data from China and demonstrate that managerial ties are necessary but insufficient for good performance; traditional strategy variables also drive performance.
Abstract: Using survey data from China, we demonstrate that managers' micro interpersonal ties with top executives at other firms and with government officials help improve macro organizational performance This micro-macro link differs among firms with different (1) ownership types, (2) business sectors, (3) sizes, and (4) industry growth rates In addition, managerial ties were found to be necessary but insufficient for good performance; a number of traditional strategy variables also drive performance Theoretically, the findings point to the importance of the social context in which managerial ties are embedded Empirically, this study provides the first set of quantitative data demonstrating both the extent and limits to which managerial ties are beneficial in a transition economy
2,465 citations
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19 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a global system theory of the Transnational Capitalist Class and the struggle for the environment, focusing on the transnational corporations and their role in the global economy.
Abstract: List of Figures and Tables. Preface and Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction:Global System Theory. Four Propositions on the Transnational Capitalist Class. Structure of the Book. 2. Globalizing Class Theory:Theorizing the Dominant Class. Structure and Dynamics of the Transnational Capitalist Class. Dominant Classes and Dominated Groups. 'National' Interest and the 'National' Economy. 3. Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy:The Global Economy and the Fortune Global 500. Consumer Goods and Services. Financial Services. Heavy Industries. Infrastructure. Electronics. From 'National Companies with Units Abroad' to Globalizing Corporations.Global 500 Consumer Goods and Services Corporations. Global 500 Financial Services Corporations. Global 500 Heavy Industries Corporations. Global 500 Infrastructure Corporations. Global 500 Electronics Corporations. The Non-respondents. Conclusions. 4. Corporate Elites and the Transformation of Foreign Investment:The Transformation of Foreign Investment. Global Brands. The Regulatory Climate. Phases of Foreign Investment. The Home Base and Foreign Investment: The Case of NAFTA. Disinvestment. Foreign Investment as a Globalizing Practice. 5. World Best Practice, Benchmarking and National Competitiveness:World Best Practice, Benchmarking, and Globalization. Industry Benchmarking. Global Programme Benchmarking: Six Sigma and the Quest for Perfection. Politicians, Professionals and the 'Competitiveness of Nations'. World Best Practice as a Globalizing Practice. 6. Global Corporate Citizenship:Regulating the Corporations: History and Theory. Employee Relations. Corporate Philanthropy and Community Development. Safety and Health of Consumers and Citizens. Corporate Citizenship as a Globalizing Practice: Deconstructing Shell. 7. The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Struggle for the Environment:History and Theory of Corporate Environmentalism. Corporate Capture of the Environmental Movement or Constructive Dialogue: the Creation of a Sustainable Development Historical Bloc. Environmental Policies and Practices of Major Corporations. Procter and Gamble. Mitsubishi. Monsanto. Intel. Dow. RTZ (Rio Tinto). BHP. BP (BP Amoco). Sustainable Development as a Globalizing Ideology. 8. Global Vision and the Culture-Ideology of Consumerism:Consumer-Oriented Global Visions for Humanity. Industry-Oriented Global Visions. Organization-Oriented Global Visions. The Visionary Executive. Global Vision as a Globalizing Practice. 9. Conclusion:Appendix 1: Fortune Global 500 Corporations (and Subsidiaries) Interviewed, by Business Sector. Appendix 2: Other Corporations and Organizations Interviewed. References. General Index Author Index.
1,184 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt is made to make a contribution toward the theory of growth by analyzing the transition process through which an underdeveloped economy hopes to move from a condition of stagnation to one of self sustaining growth.
Abstract: An attempt is made to make a contribution toward the theory of growth by analyzing the transition process through which an underdeveloped economy hopes to move from a condition of stagnation to one of self sustaining growth. Already accepted ideas are liberally drawn upon before proceeding to weave them into a general explanatory model of economic growth. The analysis begins with an economys first departure from quasistagnation or the initiation of the "take off process." Rostow defines this as a period of 2 or 3 decades during which the economy transforms itself in such a way that economic growth becomes subsequently more or less automatic. Its characteristics are a reduction of the rural proportion of the population a doubling of savings rates and the first marked and continuous flowering of industry stimulated by the availability of surplus labor. Arthur Lewis investigates the expansion of the capitalistic or industrial sector as it is nourished by supplies of cheap labor from the subsistence or agricultural sector. Lewis failed to present a satisfactory analysis of the subsistence or agricultural sector. Finally the economy must be able to solve its Malthusian problem if the process of development along a balanced growth path is to prove successful. The contribution of this discussion is to construct a theory of economic growth of which the identified ideas constitute component parts. The 5 sections present the basic structure of the "neglected" agricultural sector generalize the previously "static" analysis by admitting the possibility of a change of productivity in the agricultural sector introduce changes in industrial productivity and the concept of a "balanced growth criterion" by means of which the termination of the take off process is formally defined present a prescise mathematical formulation of the theory which enables the making of certain quantitative conditional predictions as a 1st test of its empirical relevancy and integrate population growth as well as some other real world complexities into the model and investigate the notion of the critical minimum effort in relation to the length of the take off process.
1,090 citations