Power, Policy and Profit investigates the many ways in which corporate actors attempt to influence political activities. Policy professionals will find this a timely read on the complexities of corporate engagement in politics and governance.

Contents: Introduction: Political affairs in the global domain Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom. 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic 2. Global policy bricolage: The role of business in the World Economic Forum Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom 3. Policy making as collective bricolage: The role of the electricity sector in the Making of the European carbon market Mélodie Cartel, Eva Boxenbaum, Franck Aggeri and Jean-Yves Caneill 4. Lobbying in Practice: An ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy Anna Tyllström 5. Firms’ political strategies in a new public/private environment: The Boeing case Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître 6. Corporate advocacy in the internet domain: Shaping policy through data visualizations Mikkel Flyverbom 7. Talking like an institutional investor: On the gentle voices of financial giants Anette Nyqvist 8. Leading the war on epidemics: exploring corporations’ predatory modus operandi and their effects on institutional field dynamics Sébastien Picard, Véronique Steyer, Xavier Philippe and Mar Pérezts 9. Political chocolate: Branding it fairtrade Renita Thedvall 10. Preventing markets from self-destruction Bo Rothstein Reflections: Leaving Flatland? Planar discourses and the search for the G-axis. David A. Westbrook Index

'An expansive, incisive analysis documenting the sprawling and fast-evolving growth of corporate power in policymaking venues across the globe. Pushing the narrative far beyond a simple money-in-politics storyline, the authors illustrate how corporations exert increasing influence in the public sphere and often gain the upper hand vis-à-vis nation-states. Anyone concerned about democratic standards and accountable governance will find this book a must-read.' --Janine R. Wedel, George Mason University, US'This challenging book revisits the relationships between state and market by accounting for the unexpected development of corporations as policymakers, an emergent, global phenomenon. The authors address this fascinating issue in its multiple dimensions. They describe, examine and analyze the way corporations craftily ''bricole'' political and economic interests; the ambiguous status and roles of international non-state organizations; the permanent duality between doing-good and making money that corporations embrace. They uncover a rather discrete but central transformation of today's definition of public intervention.' --Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, Paris, France'Power, Policy and Profit tackles the important and understudied problem of how firms attempt to shape their environment, especially their political and institutional environments. The essays go well beyond examining well-known activities to shed light on venues, strategies and events to which researchers have previously given scant attention. As such, the volume makes an important contribution and promises to stimulate important new lines of research on corporate power.' --Stephen R. Barley, University of California, Santa Barbara, US