"It's the politics, stupid!": Reflections on the role of business in contemporary nonfiction

Business and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 565-576

  Matten, Dirk ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business and politics; Corporate political action; Disaster capitalism; Supercapitalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449107496     PISSN: 00076503     EISSN: 14678594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0007650309337123     Document Type: Review

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