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fo~ Introduction 1. Interviews with Hank McKinnell and Joe Badaracco. 2.
The interviews were taped for a documentary film, The Corporation, that
is based on this book. I wrote the film and am also cocreator of it with
Mark Achbar, who is also coproducer (with Bart Simpson) and codirector
(with Jennifer Abbott). Interviews were conducted by Mark Achbar, Dawn
Brett (an associate producer, as I am too), or myself. For most of those
I did not personally conduct, I was involved in formulating questions
and strategies. I am indebted to Achbar, Abbott, Brett, and Simpson, as
well as to Big Pictures Media, the company that produced the film, and
the broadcasters , agencies, and other investors who financed it. 3.
Lawrence E. Mitchell, Corporate Irresponsibility: America's Newest
Export (New Haven: Yale University Press, February 19, 2002). 1: The
Corporation's Rise to Dominance 1. Tom Hadden, Company Law and
Capitalism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972), 14. 2. John
Carswell, The South Sea Bubble (London: Cresset Press, 1960), 42
("Spaniards"), 55 (`profits"). 3. Ibid., 173 4. Ibid. 5. Hadden, Company
Law and Capitalism, 16.
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for what became TRIPs." (The quotes from Enyard and Pratt are cited in
Bel Balany Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma'anit, and Erik
Wesselius, Europe Inc.: Regional and Global Restructuring and the Rise
of Corporate Power (London: Pluto Press, 2000), 129). The relationship
between business and government in creating the General Agreement on
Trade in Services (CATS), which is developing a regime for WTO oversight
of the accounting industry (as discussed in Chapter 1), among other
things, provides further evidence of the partnership theme. Like TRIPs,
this agreement likely would not have emerged were it not for sustained
lobbying from industry, in this case through the U.S. Coalition of
Service Industries (CSI). Recently, Bob Vastine, chairman of the CSI,
called the relationship between service industries and U.S.
administrations an "extraordinary example of government/industry
cooperation that should serve as a benchmark for the rest of the world."
Indeed, the rest of the world seems to have been watching, as a European
organization, the European Services Network, modeled upon the CSI, was
launched on January 26, 1999 (and renamed the European Services Forum in
October 1999). Upon its launch, Sir Leon Brittan, who, as vice president
of the European Commission, had suggested that the network be created,
said, "I am in your hands to listen to what are your objectives, your
priorities for liberalization .... I count on your support and input, at
the company, CEO and Chairman as well as at the European or National
Federation levels, so that we can refine our strategy and set out clear,
priority negotiation objectives which will make a difference in the
international expansion of service businesses ." (Vastine and Brittan
cited in Erik Wesselius, "Behind CATS 2000: Corporate Power at Work,"
TNI Briefing Series, No. 2002/6 (Amsterdam: Transnational Institute,
2002), 7, 9.) 47. Interviews with Hank McKinnel, Doug Pinkham, and Jim
Gray. Speech by John Browne, "The Century of Choice," Institute of
Petroleum, London, February 16, 1999. Chapter 5: Corporations Unlimited
1. Interview with Carlton Brown. 2. Indeed, like Carlton Brown and his
clients, corporations have exploited September 11, 2001, for profit.
See, e.g., Jim Lobe, "Post-September 11, the Rich Get Richer in the US,"
Asia Times Online, November 8, 2001;
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NOTES 195 38. Interview with Steve Kline. 39. Ibid. 40. LEGO has a
program called Serious Play; see www.seriousplay.com. A recent
advertisement for a workshop using Serious Play states, "This innovative
workshop introduces Leaders and Senior Managers to the concept of
creating and implementing business strategies using the Lego Serious
Play, Real Time Strategy process. Get your hands on the Lego bricks and
experience first-hand how the Real Time Strategy application transforms
strategic planning into strategic thinking. "Real Time Strategy is the
most effective way to embed strategic thinking into your organization.
Using 3 dimensional models, metaphors and story telling, participants
learn to articulate complex ideas and successfully bring them to
action." The Globe and Mail (Toronto), September 12, 2002, A 10. 41.
Interviews with Steve Kline and Dr. Susan Linn. 42. For an overview,
see: Alex Molnar and Joseph A. Reaves, Buy Me! Buy Me!: The Fourth
Annual Report on Trends in Schoolhouse Commercialism : Year 2000-2001,
Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University, 2002;
Maude Barlow and Jane-Robertson, Class Warfare; Consumers Union, Captive
Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressures on Kids at School (Yonkers, N.Y.:
Consumer Education Services, 1995). 43. Cited in Barlow and
Jane-Robertson, Class Warfare, 84. 44. Cited in David Shenk, "Tomorrow's
Classroom Today," Spy Magazine, July-August, 1994, 22. I cite these
examples in Joel Bakan, "Beyond Censorship: An Essay on Free Speech and
Law," in Interpreting Censorship in Canada, ed. Klaus Petersen and Allan
C. Hutchinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 86. 45. This
is a modified version of a paragraph from Joel Bakan, "Beyond
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