Business and Social Crisis in Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-44503-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Much of the time, when confronted with a crisis of national dimensions, businesses do exactly what we expect them to do: they look to their own survival. Occasionally, however, firms in some contexts go beyond this. Based on qualitative, country-based fieldwork in Eastern and Southern Africa, Antoinette Handley examines how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises, often responding well in advance of the state. She reveals the surprising ways in which business responses can be focused, not on short-term profits, but instead on ways that assist society in resolving that crisis in the long term. Taking African businesses in Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and South Africa as case studies, this detailed exploration of the private sector response to crises, including HIV/AIDS and political violence crises, introduces the concept of relative business autonomy, exploring the conditions under which it can emerge and develop, when and how it may decline, and how it might contribute to a higher level of overall societal resilience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Handley, Antoinette

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Mitarbeiterbeteiligung, Aktienbesitz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Gesundheitsökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Doing business like a state: the response to social crisis; Part I. Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health: 2. Not our business: HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda; 3. Healthy responses: HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Botswana; Part II. Business, Political Crisis and the Provision of Broader Social Stability: 4. The business of business is politics: political and electoral violence in South Africa and Kenya; 5. Business interests and the broader social good in the developing world.

Über Autor(innen)

Handley, Antoinette
Antoinette Handley is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto where her research focuses on state-business relations and the nature of the capitalist class in Africa. She has been awarded Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships, and the World Politics Research Fellowship at Princeton University, New Jersey. She is the author of Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy Making in the Neo-Liberal Era (Cambridge, 2008).