In the National Interest? Large Firms and Public Policy in Australia

符合国家利益？

• 批准号: DP200100521
• 负责人: Prof Stephen Bell
• 金额: $ 14.32万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2020-02-17 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP200100521
• 关键词: National; Interest; Large; Firms; Public

Institutional and other theories suggest large firms necessarily engage in public policy to mainly serve narrow firm-centric interests. Yet large firms sometimes also engage in national level policy, such as big business support for policy reforms in Australia in the 1980s. Our central question is: how do large Australian firms articulate their public policy interests and goals, what factors drive this, and with what outcomes? Do they pursue narrow or broader national agendas and how might the two overlap from the perspective of large firms? In this greenfield research we link questions of big business policy engagement with questions of business power and legitimacy and also to questions of national governance capacity.

制度理论和其他理论认为，大公司必须参与公共政策，主要服务于狭隘的公司为中心的利益。然而，大公司有时也参与国家一级的政策，如20世纪80年代澳大利亚大企业对政策改革的支持。我们的中心问题是：澳大利亚大型企业如何阐明其公共政策利益和目标，推动这一点的因素是什么，结果是什么？他们追求的是狭隘的还是更广泛的国家议程？从大公司的角度来看，这两者如何重叠？在这项格林菲尔德的研究中，我们将大企业政策参与问题与企业权力和合法性问题以及国家治理能力问题联系起来。