Part 1 The corporation and political action: industry structure or managerial discretion - the determinants of industry political success in the US International Trade Commission's escape clause investigations, Kathleen Allee Rehbein and Stephanie Ann Lenway; corporate political tactics in a principal-agent context - an investigation in ozone protection policy, Kathleen Getz; growth strategies and corporate taxation - politics as cause and effect, Cathi Martin. Part 2 Corporate public affairs management: the state of corporate public affairs in the United States - results of a national survey, Foundation for Public Affairs; Australian public affairs practice - results of the 1992 National Public Affairs Survey, Centre for Public Affairs; managing corporate public affairs and government relations - US multinational corporations in Europe, Jeffrey Lenn et al; public affairs managment performance - an empirical analysis of evaluation and measurement, Craig S. Fleisher. Part 3 Perspectives on the modern corporation: European strategic environmental management - toward a global model of business environmentalism, Mark Starik and Chandra Gribbon; the evolution of the business corporation - an anthropological perspective, Thomas Vetica.