"The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government" ed. by David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham Wilson

The volume provides an authoritative overview with chapters by leading authorities on the current state of knowledge of business-government relations, but also points to ways in which this work might be developed in the future, e.g., through a political theory of the firm.

The first part of the book provides an introduction to the ways in which five different disciplines have approached the study of business and government.
The second section, on the firm and the state, looks at how these entities interact in different settings, emphasising such phenomena as the global firm and varieties of capitalism.
The third section examines how business interacts with government in different parts of the world, including the United States, the EU, China, Japan and South America.
The fourth section reviews changing patterns of market governance through a unifying theme of the role of regulation. Business-government relations can play out in divergent ways in different policy and the fifth section examines the contrasts between different key arenas such as competition policy, trade policy, training policy and environmental policy.

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Overview
PART I DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
1. Political Science: Perspectives on Business and Government
2. Economics: Economic Theories of the Firm, Business, and Government
3. Law and Business
4. Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business–State Relations
PART II FIRM AND STATE
5. Varieties of Capitalism and Business
6. The Global Firm: The Problem of the Giant Firm in Democratic Capitalism
7. The Political Theory of the Firm
8. Business and Political Parties
9. Economic Interests and Political Representation: Coordination and Distributive Conflict in Historical Perspective
10. Business and Neo-corporatism
PART III COMPARATIVE BUSINESS SYSTEMS
11. Business Representation in Washington, DC
12. European Business–Government Relations
13. Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of Fragmentation and Centralization
14. Japanese Business–Government Relations
15. China and the Multinational Experience
PART IV CHANGING MARKET GOVERNANCE
16. The Rise of the Regulatory State
17. International Regulators and Network Governance
18. Credit Rating Agencies
19. International Standards and Standard Setting Bodies
20. Taming Globalization? Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism
PART V POLICY
21. Corporate Control and Managerial Power
22. Corporate Social Responsibility and Government
23. The State, Business, and Training
24. Social Policy and Business
25. Public–Private Partnerships in Business and Government
26. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy: Evaluating its Role and Purpose
27. Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption
28. Media Economics and the Political Economy of Information
29. Environmental and Food Safety Policy
30. Network Utilities: Technological Development, Market Structure, and Forms of Ownership
31. Endogenous Trade Protection: A Survey
32. Competition Policy
General Index