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Tables of Contents for Understanding Business
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and diagrams
viii
List of tables
ix
Acknowledgements
x
Introduction: The Concept of the Business Environment
1
4
Globalisation
5
6
Anthony Giddens
Identifying environmental issues
11
5
Rosalind Armson
John Martin
Susan Carr
Roger Spear
Tony Walsh
The traditions of thought in the study of economy and society
16
15
David Coates
SECTION 1: THE ECONOMY
31
60
Conservative governments and the economy, 1979-97
33
13
Stephen Wilks
Finance unbound
46
9
Will Hutton
The management of the UK economy
55
16
David Coates
A marxist reading of the UK economy and its management
71
4
David Coates
Living without borders
75
6
Dipak K. Rastogi
Global cooperation or rival trade blocs?
81
10
Gerd Junne
SECTION 2: SOCIETY
91
68
The structure of society
93
5
Stuart Hall
Social trends since World War II
98
14
A.H. Halsey
Changing social divisions: class gender and race
112
23
Harriet Bradley
Why inequality doesn't work
135
12
Will Hutton
A new international division of labour?
147
4
Peter Braham
Culture and management
151
8
Rosalind Armson
John Martin
Susan Carr
Roger Spear
Tony Walsh
SECTION 3: THE STATE
159
56
An overview of the English legal system
161
17
Carol Howells
Power and the state
178
5
David Coates
Putting the advanced capitalist state in perspective
183
10
Anthony McGrew
Government-business relations in Japan and Korea
193
11
Min Chen
Business routes of influence in Brussels: exploring the choice of direct representation
204
6
Robert J. Bennett
Globalization and the advanced capitalist state
210
5
Anthony McGrew
SECTION 4: THE SYSTEM? TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND GLOBALISATION
215
64
Creating the corporate future
217
11
Russell L. Ackoff
Daniel Bell and the information society
228
7
Hugh Mackay
Nick Heap
Ray Thomas
Global information infrastructure: eliminating the distance barrier
235
10
Heather E. Hudson
Globalization, new production concepts and income distribution
245
5
A.J.C. Manders
Y.S. Brenner
A road map for natural capitalism
250
14
Amory B. Lovins
L. Hunter Lovins
Paul Hawken
Reflections on the politics linking science, environment and innovation
264
15
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Index
279