Business and Social Crisis in Africa
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Business and Social Crisis in Africa by Antoinette Handley
Based on fieldwork in Kenya, Uganda, Botswana and South Africa, this study focuses on the private sector response to the AIDS epidemic and to political violence, revealing how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises, often responding well in advance of the state.
'Handley effectively unpacks the conditions and contexts in which private companies have responded constructively to HIV/AIDS and election-related violence in AfricaBy documenting the variation in responses by firms across national borders and over time, she disrupts canonical ideas regarding the pursuit of 'self-interest' by business.' M. Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan
'In this strikingly innovative work of comparative political economy, Antoinette Handley inquires into the conditions that lead business interests to furnish collective goods and to act with assertive public purpose in moments of crisis. The resulting argument furnishes important new insights on the political behaviour of firms, in Africa and well beyond. This will be a touchstone for those interested in the shifting relations between government and business in the developing world.' Peter M. Lewis, The Johns Hopkins University
'Is business socially responsible in Africa? That is the fundamental question Handley (Univ. of Toronto) attempts to answer in this innovative and carefully researched study.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice
'In this strikingly innovative work of comparative political economy, Antoinette Handley inquires into the conditions that lead business interests to furnish collective goods and to act with assertive public purpose in moments of crisis. The resulting argument furnishes important new insights on the political behaviour of firms, in Africa and well beyond. This will be a touchstone for those interested in the shifting relations between government and business in the developing world.' Peter M. Lewis, The Johns Hopkins University
'Is business socially responsible in Africa? That is the fundamental question Handley (Univ. of Toronto) attempts to answer in this innovative and carefully researched study.' R. I. Rotberg, Choice
Antoinette Handley is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto where her research focuses on state-business relations and the nature of the capitalist class in Africa. She has been awarded Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships, and the World Politics Research Fellowship at Princeton University, New Jersey. She is the author of Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy Making in the Neo-Liberal Era (Cambridge, 2008).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781108445030 |
| ISBN 10 | 1108445039 |
| Title | Business and Social Crisis in Africa |
| Author | Antoinette Handley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2019-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 230 |
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