Focusing on the dynamics between business and government, this revised edition offers an updated perspective on US business-government relations within the country's institutional framework. It serves as an essential textbook for understanding the skills needed to navigate these interactions effectively, making it a valuable resource for students and professionals alike. The book emphasizes practical approaches and contemporary issues, ensuring relevance in today's global governance landscape.
This book introduces business-government relations in the institutional context of the United States from a practitioner’s perspective. It provides the historical, descriptive, and comparative accounts of the public and private sectors, the different roles government plays with business, including several conceptual models to understand the social interactions between the two sectors, and various economic policies associated with business. Business-government relations are framed into three different social economic In the course of discussion, a set of skills, such as searching government jobs, starting a business, analyzing stakeholders, ethical reasoning, advancing a business agenda, leveraging public resources, contracting with government, interpreting global trends, doing business abroad, and leveraging international resources, are introduced and exercised.