George C. Lodge

Ideology and National Competitiveness : An Analysis of Nine Countries

Ideology and National Competitiveness shows how and why ideology affects the power, role, and behavior of managers in nine countries: Japan, the United States, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico. Effective managers must understand the ideological implications of their actions to gain competitive advantage. A research colloquium book.

A corporate solution to global poverty : how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy

Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Prologue 1 PART I: The Legitimacy Gap Chapter 1: Introduction 9 Chapter 2: The Legitimacy of Business 21 PART II: Reactions, Responses, and Responsibilities Chapter 3: NGOs and the Attack: Critics, Watchdogs, and Collaborators 45 Chapter 4: The Corporate Response 71 Chapter 5: International Development Architecture 90 Chapter 6: The Emerging International Consensus 117 PART III: Global Poverty Reduction and the Role of Big Business Chapter 7: The Options for Business Contributions 137 Chapter 8: A World Development Corporation 155 Notes 165 Bibliography 177 Index 185

The American Corporation and Its New Relationships

The pressures of global competition are forcing radical changes on American corporations. Taken together, these changes constitute a radically different pattern of relationships with competitors, suppliers, and government. In place of adversarial, short-term, contractual, and rigid relationships are ones which are more cooperative, intimate, long-term, consensual, and flexible. The transition is shocking to many managers who find it hard to adjust old assumptions to conform to the new reality. The authors present ways to effectively manage the transition to new relationships for competitiveness.

The Corporate Key: Using Big Business to Fight Global Poverty

In recent months, world leaders-including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan-have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow through on them have been dis appointing. Success this time will require a new institution that can harness the capa bilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, di rectly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against poverty stems from several factors. To begin with, many of the worlds poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments, therefore, has often not helped their neediest citizens. In fact, in spite of the roughly

The Need for Ideological Consciousness

1 trillion that has been spent on grants and loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the worlds six billion people still live on less than

The Legitimacy of Business

2 a day; a fifth get by on less than

REVIEW: How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the poor, by sustaining the corrupt or otherwise inefficient governments that caused their misery in the first place. In such mismanaged countries-which number close to 70-a way must be found to change the basic system. Globalization-seen by many today as a sort of cure-all-will certainly not eradicate poverty on its own. True, international trade and investment have increased vastly over the last decade, making many people richer. But the problem is that the process has not really been global enough. In fact, some two billion people today live in countries that are actually becoming less globalized: trade is diminishing in relation to national income, economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, and most Africans were better off forty years ago. The average per capita income of Muslim countries, from Morocco to Bangladesh and Indonesia to

The American disease

The author has been writing about the consequences of political ideology for well over a generation now. As America faces a changed world, he believes it fails to recognize the pull and push of its own ideological tendencies. Unless it begins to understand the power of ideology, it will not be able to cope with the changed world, he argues.

U.S. competitiveness in the world economy

AbstractAs the world moves into the 21st century, business managers face new and daunting challenges to their legitimacy. Those who run the world’s 72,0000 multinational firms and their 828,000 subsidiaries face special difficulties.1 These firms constitute a global economy that has produced much that is useful, including wondrous technologies and great wealth for many. Nevertheless, one in five of the world’s six billion people lives in extreme poverty, surviving on less than

The New American Ideology

1 a day. Half the world lives on less than