Building Business-Government Relations

A Skills Approach

Anna Ni, Montgomery Van Wart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317503262
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Government & Business
• Index: Business

This book introduces business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States from a practitioner's perspective. It provides the historical, descriptive, and comparative accounts of the public and private sectors, the different roles government plays with business, including several conceptual models to understand the social interactions between the two sectors, and various economic policies associated with business. Business-government relations are framed into three different social economic contexts:

• The sociopolitical arena, in which government's role as agent of business, interest groups, and government's limited role as social architect, are introduced.

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• The local economic development, in which government acts as a promoter of, partner with, and buyer from, business.

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• The global market, where government mainly plays a role as promoter of domestic business.

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In the course of discussion, a set of skills, such as searching government jobs, starting a business, analyzing stakeholders, ethical reasoning, advancing a business agenda, leveraging public resources, contracting with government, interpreting global trends, doing business abroad, and leveraging international resources, are introduced and exercised.

Index

• Introductory Note

• When the text is within an exhibit, the number span is in italic. E.g., AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) 26, 56, 84, 113–14, 209When the text is within a note, this is indicated by page number, ‘n’, note number. E.g., Obama, Barack,44th US president: government roles5, 13, 35, 41n20

• 2008 financial crisis 56, 95, 99–100, 126, 148, 287

• Abramoff, Jack Allan 210–11
• absolute advantage theory 320, 335
• accessing public resources 250–2, 393
• accounting scandals 94, 176, 183, 184
• active government 9, 11–12
• ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) 143 , 156
• Administrative Procedure Act (APA) 140–1
• advertising: cluster theory 259
• consumer protection 142 , 145, 146–8, 149
• lobbying 203, 207
• regulation 90
• advocacy: consumer protection 146, 149
• environment 158, 160–1, 162
• globalization 319
• lobbying 202–3, 207, 210, 220–1
• affirmative action 155
• AIG (American International Group) 95, 100
• air quality: economic reform 350
• environment 143 , 163, 166, 168, 171
• sprawl 264
• Air Quality Act (1967) 143, 166
• airline industry 54 –5, 128, 275–6, 296–7, 298, 302
• ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) 308
• American Civil War ...