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1. Introduction
2. What is the socio-political imperative
3. The political imperative: why is it important?
4. Distribution of economic freedom
5. Corruption & bureaucratic discretion
6. State capture, civil liberties and economic reform
7. Socio-economic costs of state capture
8. The ‘dividend’ of good institutional governance
9. The political imperative: decomposing it
10. Political risk, country risk and project risk
11. Interest group politics & stakeholders
12. Going beyond the local socio-political context
13. Stakeholders: a definition
14. Issues with the stakeholder approach
15. What happens when we go global?
16. Global stakeholders vs. stakeholders globally
17. Compare and contrast
18. To whom do managers listen?
19. Are monitors always ‘valid’?
20. A takeaway for discussion
21. Back to the socio-political imperative
22. Thinking about the nature of politics
23. The dimensions of socio-political risk
24. Managerial responses to socio-political risk
25. Forestalling - Boeing
26. Forestalling - McDonalds
27. Socio-political & country risk: a summary
28. Further reading

Topics Covered

• Socio-political imperative
• Political risk
• Political instability
• Economic freedom
• Corruption
• State capture
• Civil liberties, freedom and development
• The dividends of good governance
• Political risk, country risk and project risk
• Interest groups
• Stakeholders
• Political risk
• Corporate reactions to stakeholders
• Global stakeholders v stakeholders globally
• The role of global monitors

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Series:

• Global Strategy

Categories:

• Global Business Management
• Strategy

Bite-size Case Studies:

• Boeing: mitigating socio-political risks to the supply chain

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Publication History

• Published on April 2, 2014
• Updated on April 6, 2014