Influence of Business Firms on the Government

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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Goals and Basic Principles -- 2. 'Influence in Society': The Concept, Specifications, and a Procedure for Measurement -- 3. Formulating Hypotheses -- 4. The Research Design, the Sample and Methods of Observation -- 5. Problems of Business Firms: Conceptual Analysis, Operationalization and Results -- 6. Large and Small Firms Compared: Influence Exercised for Solving Individual Problems (Results) -- 7. Non-individual Problems -- 8. Controls Applied to the Results: Determinants of Problems and of Influence Attempts; Criteria Employed in Government Decision-Making -- 9. Alternative Hypothesis: Growth of the Business Firm Instead of Size of the Business Firm -- 10. A Further Look at the Bases of Influence -- 11. Summary and Concluding Discussion -- References -- Appendices -- Author Index -- Subject Index