During the past decade, Corporate Responsibility – the voluntary engagement of business for social and environmental ends above legally mandated minimum standards – has risen to prominence, if not pre-eminence in global economic governance. However, Corporate Responsibility is not uniformly...

This article contributes to the debate on employer preferences. It challenges varieties of capitalism's argument that manufacturing employers in Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs) will tend to defend non-liberal institutions because of the comparative institutional advantage that they provide....

Right-wing populists present a difficult challenge for business associations. This chapter discusses business association responses to the populist right, beginning with the rationales for support and opposition. The interests of business associations and right-wing populists overlap in certain...