Private Management and Public Policy: The Principle of Public Responsibility (The Prentice-Hall Series in Economic Institutions and Social Systems)

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Issues And Definitions -- An Overview Of The Argument -- Some Definitions -- Management -- Managerial Organizations -- Society -- Social Involvement -- Public Policy -- Summary -- Models Of Management And Society -- Models Of Social Systems -- The Legal Model -- The Market Contract Model -- The Exploitation Model -- The Technostructure Model -- An Interpenetrating Systems Model -- Summary -- The Scope Of Managerial Responsibility: -- Fundamantalism -- Fundamentalism -- The Positive Argument -- The Legal Argument -- Appraisal Of Alternatives -- Critique Of Fundamentalism -- Legal And Political Legitimacy -- Validity Of Market Contract Model -- Impact Of Large Organizations -- Summary -- The Scope Of Managerial Responsibility: -- Socialization And Involvement -- The Socialization Process -- The Psychological Setting -- Stages In The Process -- Responses To Socialization -- Corporate Philanthropy -- Stylistic And Process Responses --^ Citizenship And Coalitions Critique Of Social Responsibility -- Summary -- The Public Policy Process -- The Nature Of Public Policy -- The Hierarchy Of Policy Forms -- Implicit Norms And Standards -- Explicit Prohibitions And Requirements -- Programs -- Guidelines And Stimuli -- Models Of The Public Policy Process -- Optimization -- Incrementalism -- Power And Bargaining -- An Institutional-systems Model -- Summary -- The Public Policy Agenda -- Shaping The Policy Agenda -- Public Opinion -- Interest And Pressure Groups -- Leadership -- Technical Expertise -- The Current Policy Agenda -- Goals For Americans -- Theory And Measurement: Social Indicators -- National Priorities -- New Directions -- Summary -- Appendix To Chapter Six: Goals For Americans -- The Principle Of Public Responsibility -- The Central Theme -- The Limits Of Involvement -- Public Policy, Corporate Morality, And Law -- Public Responsibility -- Implementation -- Scanning And Process Responses --^ Scanning The Social Environment -- Informal Scanning -- Formal Scanning: Two Approaches -- Activity-based Scanning -- Societal Scanning -- Internal Scanning -- Process Responses To Social Involvement -- Cognizance -- Reporting -- Participation -- Experimentation -- Summary -- Implementation: -- Programs And Appraisals -- Program Responses To Social Involvement -- Ad Hoc Responses -- Coalitions -- Basic Changes In Structure And Policy -- Broadening The Planning Horizon -- Controls And Appraisal Criteria -- Internal Reporting And Control -- External Reporting: The Social Audit -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Public Responsibility And Political Participation -- The Case Against Political Participation -- The Case For Political Participation -- Some Guidelines -- A Special Problem: The Multinationals -- A Concluding Remark -- Index Lee E. Preston, James E. Post. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.