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

制度理论和其他理论认为，大公司必须参与公共政策，主要服务于以公司为中心的狭隘利益。然而，大公司有时也会参与国家层面的政策，比如20世纪80年代澳大利亚的大企业对政策改革的支持。我们的核心问题是：大型澳大利亚公司如何阐明他们的公共政策利益和目标，是什么因素推动了这一点，以及产生了什么结果？他们是追求狭隘的还是更广泛的国家议程？从大公司的角度来看，这两者是如何重叠的？在这项绿地研究中，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。

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.