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Review Essay: "It’s the Politics, Stupid!"

Reflections on the Role of Business in Contemporary Nonfiction

York University, Ontario, Canada,dmatten{at}schulich.yorku.ca

This review essay analyzes the 2007 books of Naomi Klein and Robert B. Reich. Both books identify a political role for the private corporation in contemporary capitalism globally. The review article concludes with some remarks on the implication of both books for a future research agenda in management studies in general and the business and society field in particular.

Key Words: business and politics • corporate political action • disaster capitalism • supercapitalism

This version was published on December 1, 2009

Business & Society, Vol. 48, No. 4, 565-576 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0007650309337123


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