Does business learn?
Subtitle: tax breaks, uncertainty, and political strategies
By: Sandra L. Suárez
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Corporations -- Taxation -- United States -- Longitudinal studies; Corporations -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Longitudinal studies; Corporations -- Taxation -- Puerto Rico -- Longitudinal studies; Business and politics -- United States -- Longitudinal studies; Corporations -- United States -- Political activity
Genres: Longitudinal studies
Description: "Sandra Suarez looks at the efforts corporations take to influence government policy. In a detailed study of the efforts of major American pharmaceutical and electronics companies to protect the tax credit applicable to their profits from investments in Puerto Rico, this rare longitudinal case study explores the firms' abilities to adapt their political strategies to a fluid and uncertain political environment.

Drawing on interviews with tax lawyers, corporate lobbyists, and government officials, Suarez follows the behavior of the same group of companies over the past twenty years."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (Yale)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index
Table of contents: title: Political uncertainty and business strategy; title: Corporate interests and government policy; title: Learning to rely on implicit threats : the Tax Reform Act of 1976; title: Failure to adapt : the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982; title: Experimenting with collective action : the Tax Reform Act of 1986; title: Learned response to a new political environment : the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993; title: Conclusion : learning, influence, and the transfer of knowledge