#corporations

Topographie et représentation d’une centralité urbaine : la tour de l’Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles
Stéphane Demeter et Cecilia Paredes
Dans Studia Bruxellae 2018/1 (N° 12), pages 255 à 271

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La carte centrée de Gilles vander Hecken se trouve insérée dans un codex conservé aujourd’hui à la Bodleian Library à Oxford (MS Oxford, Douce 373).

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Il s’agit d’un volume de papier contenant 32 grands dessins manuscrits exceptionnellement complexes (Labyrinthi) en pleine page, constituant une encyclopédie condensée de la doctrine chrétienne de la fin du Moyen Âge, illustrée de dessins de style maniériste correspondant à la culture urbaine du début du XVIe siècle dans les anciens Pays-Bas : un chef-d’œuvre méconnu, impressionnant sur le plan artistique, témoignant de la culture religieuse augustinienne des monastères soniens, plus que séculaire et fortement connectée au patriciat bruxellois [26]
[26]SCHEPERS K., Gielis vander Hecken and his Perplexing Guide…
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Fig. 7 – Détail de la carte retournée à 180° montrant la section de ville comprise entre la Grand-Place (en bas) et la porte de Flandre (en haut) ; on peut y lire de haut en bas : De vlaemsche porte ad occidentem [la porte de Flandre], de vlaemsche steenwech [la rue de Flandre], Verlorencost [porte intermédiaire sur le Steenweg entre la porte de Flandre et la porte Sainte-Catherine], Ecclesia sancti Cornelii [chapelle de l’hôpital Saint-Corneille dans la rue de Flandre], Hierico [couvent de Notre-Dame à la Rose de Jéricho, dans l’actuelle rue du Vieux Marché au Grain], porta [porte Sainte-Catherine, à hauteur de l’actuelle place Sainte-Catherine], Ecclesia sancte Katherine [ancienne église Sainte-Catherine, rue Sainte-Catherine], Zena [la Senne], pons [le « pont des bateaux » à hauteur de l’actuelle rue des Poissonniers], de meerscapelle [chapelle des ouvriers du Quai, à hauteur de l’actuelle rue Marché-aux-Poulets].

#cartographie

The Disruption of Taxi and Limousine Markets by Digital Platform Corporations in Western Europe and the United States
▻https://irle.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Disruption-of-Taxi-and-Limousine-Markets.pdf

Abstract

The entry of digital platform corporations, such as Uber, Lyft, and Taxify, into established taxi and limousine markets has severely challenged organized interest groups on both sides of the capital-labor divide as well as public policymakers who regulate these markets. Interest associations in different countries have regarded the market-disrupting strategies of platform corporations as either a unifying threat or as an opportunity to pursue and enforce their particularistic interests, and existing associational fields have shaped interest associations’ responses.

The author compares California and Austria because of their distinctive traditions in valorizing the public participation of nonstate societal groups and interest associations in political and economic fields. By drawing on interest group theory and on sociological field theory, this paper demonstrates that both pluralist and neocorporatist associational fields have the potential to balance societal interests and to moderate power relations.

Associational fields in California and Austria are contested societal orders whose ability to integrate all relevant societal interests has been disrupted. In California, the responses of business associations, trade unions, and labor groups to Uber reflect the fragmented state of pluralist associational fields. While diversity and competitive relations between interest groups are ideal-typical characteristics of pluralist associational fields, state actors do not serve as impartial mediators, and Uber has benefited from more favorable rules and conditions than those applied to taxi and limousine companies. In Austria, the responses of the highly centralized business and labor associations toward Uber reflect the strong disposition of the Chamber of Commerce and trade unions toward the logic of influence. However, that collective bargaining institutions or social partner agreements are not able to control the company points to the fragile and contested character of associational fields. It is nevertheless likely that the ongoing struggle for common rules for all market participants will reinforce neocorporatist associational fields.

Pernicka, S. (2019). The disruption of taxi and limousine markets by digital platform corporations in Western Europe and the United States: Responses of business associations, labor unions, and other interest groups. Working paper. Retrieved from Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Los Angeles

#associational_fields, #Bourdieu, #digital_platform #corporations #interest_groups #Uber #Taxi #Mietwagen #Disruption

Stockholm says no to Apple ’town square’ in its oldest park | Cities | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/01/stockholm-apple-town-square-park-kings-garden-kungstradgarden

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Plans for the company’s vast new ‘gathering place’ have been shelved after a backlash. But Apple is growing bolder in its designs on public space

#corporations #espace_public #dfs #reclaim_the_street

S&P 500 share index notches up record-breaking winning streak - BBC News
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45262911

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The S&P 500 share index, which tracks the 500 biggest public companies in America, has hit a new milestone.

The benchmark index on Wednesday marked 3,453 days since its prior low-point, set on 9 March 2009, when the world was reeling from the financial crisis.

By many counts, that is the longest run without a fall of 20% or more in index history, a “bull” run in market-jargon.

Overall the index has risen almost 325% in the period, lifted by companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.

#finance #spéculation #corporations #multiunationales #bourse #indice #index

#Siemens and #Alstom rail train units merge as corporations prepare for trade war - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/10/06/merg-o06.html

On September 26, the supervisory boards of the German company Siemens and the French Alstom Group unanimously approved a deal to merge the rail train units of both companies by the end of 2018 in a “merger of equals.” With 62,000 employees and an annual turnover of around 15 billion euros, the new corporation will be the world’s second-largest railway technology company.

#fusion_acquisition #multinationales #corporations

« Nous n’avons pas besoin des #Multinationales. La solution, c’est leur dissolution »
▻https://www.bastamag.net/Nous-n-avons-pas-besoin-des-multinationales-La-solution-c-est-leur-dissolu

Savons-nous vraiment ce qu’est une multinationale aujourd’hui ? Comprenons-nous la nature de son pouvoir, de son « totalitarisme pervers » et les moyens de le combattre réellement ? Dans un livre important, De quoi Total est-elle la somme ?, le philosophe Alain Deneault dresse, à partir du cas de ce géant pétrolier, le portrait d’une multinationale comme un acteur #Politique mondiale. Un acteur au-dessus des souverainetés démocratiques nationales ou internationales : un « pouvoir » en soi, évoluant (...)

#Décrypter

/ A la une, Politique, Traités de libre-échange : les multinationales contre la démocratie ?, #Entretiens, Multinationales, #Néo-colonialisme, #Oligarchies, Souveraineté (...)

#Traités_de_libre-échange_:les_multinationales_contre_la_démocratie ? #Souveraineté_populaire

Unusable Nigerians
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/unusable-nigerians

Oloibiri is a town located a few kilometers away from the city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, #Nigeria. It is known for sharing the same local government, of Ogbia, as the town of Otuoke where Nigeria’s former president Goodluck Jonathan was born. Perhaps more noteworthy is that the small Niger #Delta town of Oloibiri…

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #INEQUALITY #corporations #economics #Extraction #multinational #Neo-colonialism #oil

We all go for food security, but who wins at the end? - by @odilon ▻http://visionscarto.net/food-security-who-benefits

#Food_security #Colonization #Corporations #Land_grabbing #G7 #Agriculture #Food #Revolts #Peasantry #Africa

The New alliance for food security and nutrition (NAFSN) is a partnership launched in 2012 by the G8 group (G7 since the exclusion of Russia) between private corporations from the agribusiness sector, 10 african countries (partners), international institutions, NGOs and peasants associations within partner countries. This initiative has been promoted as one of the means to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. However, more and more NGOs are criticizing the control of land resources by multinational corporations, which harms local communities more than it helps.

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Why Are #Corporations Hoarding Trillions? - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-are-corporations-hoarding-trillions.html

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Corporations, it seems, may have amassed at least a good chunk of that $1.9 trillion in mysterious savings because the stock market is rewarding them for it.

Which leaves one last question: Why? The answer, perhaps, is that both the executives and the investors in these industries believe that something big is coming, but — this is crucial — they’re not sure what it will be. Through the 20th century, as we shifted from a horse-and-sun-powered agrarian economy to an electricity-and-motor-powered industrial economy to a silicon-based information economy, it was clear that every company had to invest in the new thing that was coming. These were big, expensive investments in buildings and machinery and computer technology. Today, though, value is created far more through new ideas and new ways of interaction. Ideas appear and spread much more quickly, and their worth is much harder to estimate. (Indeed, the impossibility of valuing the Internet is essentially what created the 2000 stock bubble.)

Surely the most important economic question of our time is a fairly simple one: Are the good times over? Will wages continue to fall for many, while rising high for a few? In the cash conundrum, we might find a modest reason for optimism. If corporate leaders and their investors truly believed that the future were bleak, that innovation and economic growth were irreparably slowing, there would be little reason to hold on to all that cash. Their hoarding of it hints that they think the next transformative innovation could be just around the corner. If in fact they do — and if they’re right — it’s good news for all of us.

#bourse #gains #investissements #épargne

#Ghana’s #chale_wote Street Arts Festival and the #corporations
▻http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/corporations-arts-ghana

The CHALE WOTE Street #Art Festival in Accra has grown over the last four years, expanding to new audiences in Ghana and across the world, particularly through social media and.....

#CULTURE_PAGE #accra_dot_alt

L’accord top secret qui doit dépecer les services publics | L’Humanité
►http://www.humanite.fr/laccord-top-secret-qui-doit-depecer-les-services-publics-545491

Les États-Unis, les pays de l’UE et une vingtaine d’autres États ont entamé à Genève des négociations sur le commerce des services. Signe particulier : ces tractations devaient rester secrètes pendant cinq ans. WikiLeaks a réussi à lever en partie le voile sur leur contenu.

Tout devait rester entièrement secret. Rien ne devait filtrer des négociations sur l’accord sur le commerce des services (ACS) entamées depuis deux ans à l’ambassade d’Australie à Genève entre les États-Unis, l’Union européenne et une vingtaine de pays. Une vaste entreprise de libéralisation qui touche jusqu’aux services publics fondamentaux. Des mesures assurant une confidentialité totale des discussions ont été prises, dans un langage digne d’un scénario à la James Bond. Les textes établissant l’avancée des pourparlers ont été «  classifiés  », selon un jargon utilisé généralement pour les dossiers secret-défense. Ils doivent être «  protégés de toute diffusion non autorisée  » et stockés dans un système d’ordinateurs lui-même classifié et maintenu «  dans un building ou un container clos  » sous haute surveillance. L’objectif déclaré est que rien ne puisse transpirer du contenu de ces tractations «  jusqu’à cinq ans après la conclusion d’un accord  » ou la fin des négociations si celles-ci devaient finalement ne pas aboutir.

Voir aussi : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/386464

Oil Investors at Brink of Losing Trillions of Dollars in Assets - Businessweek
▻http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-02/oil-investors-may-be-running-off-a-cliff-they-can-t-see

Al Gore likens today’s fossil fuels to the subprime mortgages of the last decade that triggered the global credit crisis. Their value “is based on an assumption every bit as absurd,” specifically the notion that all known oil, gas and coal will be consumed.

Zephyr Teachout’s ‘#Corruption in America’
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/books/review/zephyr-teachouts-corruption-in-america.html

You have probably heard pundits say we are living in an age of “legalized bribery”; “Corruption in America” is the book that makes their case in careful detail.

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#Corporations now possess the rights that the founders reserved for citizens, and as Teachout explains, what used to be called “corruption becomes democratic responsiveness.”

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Teachout gives us a long and savory chapter on the legal history of lobbying. Once upon a time, #lobbying was regarded as obviously perfidious (...)

#démocratie #Etats-Unis #leadership #corruption_légale

Non-lieu général dans le dossier de la vache folle
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2014/07/25/non-lieu-general-dans-le-dossier-de-la-vache-folle_4463164_1651302.html
Ce qui est formidable avec la #mondialisation en général, et la façon dont fonctionne l’#agroalimentaire en particulier, c’est qu’en cas de pépin il n’y a jamais de responsable. #corporations

Il n’y aura pas de procès. Dix-sept ans après l’ouverture du dossier de la vache folle, les deux juges chargés de son instruction ont décidé de délivrer un non-lieu général dans cette affaire, a annoncé vendredi 25 juillet à l’agence de presse Reuters une source judiciaire, confirmant une information d’Europe 1.

Shares in emerging markets: Scarce | The Economist

▻http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21594476-scarce?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/dc/scarcessharesemerginmarket

Scarce ...

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Investors love the promise of high returns from emerging-market equities, but there are not many of them to buy. Especially if you exclude stakes held by governments, the market capitalisation of bourses beyond the rich world is tiny. Just how tiny is apparent from the map below: in many emerging markets, the value of all the freely traded shares of firms that feature in the local MSCI share index (which typically tracks 85% of local listings) is equivalent to a single Western firm. Thus all the shares available in India are worth roughly the same as Nestlé; Egypt’s are equal to Burger King. This suggests that emerging economies need deeper, more liquid markets-and investors need more perspective.

#corporations #multiunationales #visualisation #cartographie

10 Corporations Control Almost Everything You Buy — This Chart Shows How - PolicyMic

►http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how

Signalé par Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary

Ten mega corporations control the output of almost everything you buy; from household products to pet food to jeans.

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According to this chart via Reddit, called “The Illusion of Choice,” these corporations create a chain that begins at one of 10 super companies. You’ve heard of the biggest names, but it’s amazing to see what these giants own or influence.

#multinationales #corporations

« Les #environnementalistes sont plus dangereux que les #climato-sceptiques ! » Le coup de gueule de Naomi Klein - Reporterre
▻http://www.reporterre.net/spip.php?article4700

La célèbre journaliste canadienne, militante altermondialiste connue pour ses livres No Logo et La Stratégie du choc, vient de déclencher une furieuse polémique au sein du mouvement écologiste nord-américain.

Il y a deux ans, Klein avait écrit dans le journal The Nation que le militantisme climatique et le #capitalisme étaient incompatibles. Elle observait que les climato-sceptiques l’étaient pour des raisons idéologiques : ils comprennent très bien que si le changement climatique se produit, la seule façon d’échapper à ses conséquences est de remettre en cause le système économique actuel, le capitalisme. Selon elle, la seule réponse adaptée à la menace climatique résidait « dans la pulvérisation de l’idéologie du marché libre, laquelle a dominé l’économie depuis plus de trois décennies ».

Elle poursuit dans cette voie en accusant cette fois les principaux groupes environnementalistes de n’avoir pas compris cette vérité élémentaire, ce qui les a conduit à nouer des alliances coupables avec les grandes #corporations.

European Commission preparing for EU-US trade talks: 119 meetings with industry lobbyists | Corporate Europe Observatory
▻http://corporateeurope.org/trade/2013/09/european-commission-preparing-eu-us-trade-talks-119-meetings-indust

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In response to an access to documents request from Corporate Europe Observatory, the European Commission has released a list of 130 ‘meetings with stakeholders’ on the EU-US free trade talks. At least 119 meetings were with large corporations and their lobby groups. This means that more than 93% of the Commission’s meetings with stakeholders during the preparations of the negotiations were with big business. The list of meetings reveals that, in addition to the civil society dialogue meetings reported on the DG Trade website, there is a parallel world of a very large number of intimate meetings with big business lobbyists behind closed doors - and these are not disclosed online.

Negotiations on an EU-US ‘free trade’ agreement (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP) started in July this year amid strong controversy and public concern about the impacts such an agreement could have on environmental regulations, food standards, data protection and other issues. The European Commission, which represents the EU in the negotiations, has reacted with a propaganda offensive that includes a Q&A website full of misleading claims about the TTIP talks and a ‘@EU_TTIP_team’ that counters critical messages on twitter. In mid-July, the Commission made a huge deal out of the civil society dialogue it had organised in Brussels on the TTIP talks, posting dozens of tweets about the event, praising the “interesting discussion” on issues such as “the environment, transparency, development” with “as many questions from NGOs [...] than there were from Industry”.

The event also features prominently on the website of the Commission’s trade department (DG Trade), in the ‘Dialogues’ section where the Commission states that it aims for “a transparent and accountable trade policy based on consultations with all parts of European civil society”. But what is disclosed on the website is only a tiny part of the meetings that DG Trade has with ‘stakeholders’.

In April, Corporate Europe Observatory submitted an access to documents request in order to get an overview of the Commission’s contacts with industry, in the context of the preparations for the EU-US trade talks. The Commission’s first response was to ask us to "narrow down the scope” of the request, because it “concerns a very large number of documents”. Three months later the first result arrived: a list of 130 ‘meetings with stakeholders’ that took place between January 2012 and April 2013.1 A few weeks later another five meetings were added to this list. DG Trade has informed us that the minutes and other reports of these 135 meetings, as well as correspondence between DG trade and industry lobbies, will be released later, but that they “cannot yet commit to a specific date”.

#EU-US
#European_Commission
#TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)
#NGOs #ONG

15 Major Corporations You Never Knew Profited from Slavery - Atlanta Black Star

▻http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/26/17-major-companies-never-knew-benefited-slavery

The enslavement of African people in the Americas by the nations and peoples of Western Europe, created the economic engine that funded modern capitalism. Therefore it comes as no surprise that most of the major corporations that were founded by Western European and American merchants prior to roughly 100 years ago, benefited directly from slavery.

#états-unis #esclavage #corporations #multinationales

Observatoire des multinationales
►http://www.multinationales.org

Pourquoi un Observatoire des transnationales ?

Parce que l’information sur les pratiques et les impacts des grandes entreprises multinationales est trop importante pour être laissée aux services de communication de ces mêmes entreprises.

Parce que les informations pertinentes et complètes sur les pratiques des grands groupes et leur impact restent trop rares ou trop dispersées, noyées sous le jargon boursier ou managérial, les stratégies marketing ou, à l’inverse, les dénonciations simplificatrices.

Parce qu’une information plurielle et contradictoire, donnant la parole à toutes les parties et notamment aux travailleurs et aux communautés où les entreprises sont implantées, est indispensable pour s’assurer que le développement des grands groupes apporte une contribution positive et reste compatible avec la démocratie et avec la justice sociale et environnementale.

Parce qu’il n’existait pas réellement de pôle indépendant d’information et de ressources en langue française sur les pratiques des entreprises multinationales – et notamment les grands groupes français.

Focus : Brand value | The Economist

▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/focus-5

Brand value
May 21st 2013, 17:39 by Economist.com

BRANDS are basically a promise. They tell consumers what quality to expect from a product and show off its personality. Firms invest a lot on the image of their brands to foster sales and loyalty. But measuring their value is hard. Millward Brown, a market-research company, is one of several that takes a stab at it. It has just published its annual ranking of the world’s “most powerful” brands based on consumers’ perceptions and the performance of the companies that own them.

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#branding #marketing #corporations #multinationales

A l’ #origine des #syndicats
par Djamal Benmerad
– #Journaliste #Algérie n -

►http://www.argotheme.com/organecyberpresse/spip.php?article1579

A l’origine, le #compagnonnage était une #réaction ouvrière contre les toutes-puissantes #corporations qui réservaient à la tchi-tchi (jeunesse dorée) de l’époque et aux fils de #patrons , l’accession à la #maîtrise .

UN Embroiled in Private Security Controversy

►http://www.globalpolicy.org/pmscs/51848-un-embroiled-in-private-security-controversy.html?itemid=id#1458

By Rosalind Adams, Media Global News,
August 17, 2012

Global Policy Forum’s report “Dangerous Partnerships”, released last month, has sparked a debate about the use of Private Military and Security Companies by the United Nations. The UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS) has rejected the report’s conclusions as ‘unfounded’, but has failed to provide the public with actual numbers because there is “no centralizes process” to deal with PMSCs within the UN. Requests for comments from journalists have been met with silence and the UN has thus far refused to shed light on its contracts with PMSCs.

A Global Policy Forum report released last month concludes the United Nations has increased its use of Private Military Security Companies (PMSCs) since 2006 and demands more oversight from the UN.

Experts agree that the system lacks regulation, but for some, the true problem is that use of these companies is condoned at all.

#ONU #Nations-Unis #corporations #multinationales #sociétés-de-sécurité