The network of global corporations and elite policy groups: a structure for transnational capitalist class formation?

Global Networks

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-57

  Carroll, William K ^a   Carson, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CENTRALISED; CORPORATE MANAGEMENT; CORPORATE POLICIES; CORPORATE POWER; CORPORATES; INTERLOCKINGS; LARGE COMPANIES; LARGE STRUCTURES; POLICY PLANNING; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85125137233     PISSN: 14702266     EISSN: 14710374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0374.00049     Document Type: Article

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