{"product_id":"theorizing-full-transparency-within-legislative-consultaion-procedures-implications-for-big-business-von-philipp-stiebeling","title":"Theorizing Full Transparency within Legislative Consultaion Procedures","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 1,0, Berlin School of Economics (IMB Institute of Management Berlin), course: Global Governance, language: English, abstract: With the breakthrough in information technology since the early 1990s pivoting in a maturing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eglobal information network accessible for a broad mass of consumers called the internet, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epower information relays to its \"owner\" and the means and speed of its diffusion have been\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erevolutionized. In this context, looking at various societal actors, the issue of equal access to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand transparency of information triggered not only broad scientific research efforts, but again\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eplaced the spotlight of public scrutiny on the issue of transparency of information in societal,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eeconomical and governmental mechanisms of decision making and business conduct. Civil\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esociety bombarding multinational enterprises with postulations to disclose supply chain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elocations and their labor and environmental practices especially abroad conveys that not doing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eso bears certain, if not even very lucrative, advantages for such businesses. With\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernmental legislation setting the stage for businesses` profitability in many realms,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexerting \"selfish\" influence on national politics holds great allurement for business itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFronting supranational joint efforts like the establishment of the OECD Financial Action Task\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForce1 of the G-7 member states or the European Transparency Initiative2, business has ever\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esince the beginning of nation states found its way to interact with the mechanism ultimately\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eaffecting their profitability in a regulatory or constraining way. Looking back at the financial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecrisis of 2008, it becomes clear that nowadays business making use of their involvement in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshaping national policies has not declined at all. The multinational \"Cash for Clunkers\" law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the failure of the \"nutrition facts traffic light\" law in Germany prove conclusive examples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof how \"a passive transmission belt for corporate interest\" (Stubbs 2006: 171) in form of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elobbyism successfully influences legislative outcomes which crucially benefit a certain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esocietal group. With a broad landscape of \"industries of intermediaries\" (Bac 2001: 95) which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoffer not only the expertise but also the necessary connections to crucial hotspots of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elegislative decision making, \"Big Business\" is successfully leveraging its` resources to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eincrease its power. Consequently civil society`s scrutiny in terms of where and to what extent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecertain business actors are involved in legislative outcomes is vital to ensuring the common\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egood being put ahead of interests of certain societal elites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640656042\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eImplications for Big Business\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640656042","offer_id":39441867931741,"sku":"9783640656042","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/c58ffe9a-21d6-4b35-b915-e5b705c23654.jpg?v=1777696647","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/theorizing-full-transparency-within-legislative-consultaion-procedures-implications-for-big-business-von-philipp-stiebeling","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}