TY - JOUR
T1 - The business of policy: a review of the corporate sector’s emerging strategies in the promotion of education reform
AU - Fontdevila, Clara
AU - Verger, Antoni
AU - Avelar, Marina
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and fragmentary. Furthermore, existing categorizations of corporate policy-influence strategies are frequently restricted to a limited group of Anglo-Saxon countries and, consequently, are ill suited to capturing emerging policy dynamics globally. Building on the results of a literature review, this paper categorises four emerging strategies articulated by the corporate sector: knowledge mobilization, networking, engaging with grassroots, and leading by example. Each strategy is illustrated with examples from a selection of country case studies. These examples suggest that, in the education policy domain, the corporate sector operates not only as a policy influencer, but increasingly as a policy actor organically embedded within policy-making processes and spaces.
AB - © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper examines the increasingly diverse range of roles played by the corporate sector in shaping education policy. While a growing body of scholarship has documented the deepening embeddedness of the corporate sector within policy-making processes, empirical research on the strategies mobilized by corporate actors remains unsystematised and fragmentary. Furthermore, existing categorizations of corporate policy-influence strategies are frequently restricted to a limited group of Anglo-Saxon countries and, consequently, are ill suited to capturing emerging policy dynamics globally. Building on the results of a literature review, this paper categorises four emerging strategies articulated by the corporate sector: knowledge mobilization, networking, engaging with grassroots, and leading by example. Each strategy is illustrated with examples from a selection of country case studies. These examples suggest that, in the education policy domain, the corporate sector operates not only as a policy influencer, but increasingly as a policy actor organically embedded within policy-making processes and spaces.
KW - corporate actors
KW - education policy-making
KW - education privatization
KW - educational reform
KW - philanthropic foundations
KW - Policy influence
KW - private sector
U2 - 10.1080/17508487.2019.1573749
DO - 10.1080/17508487.2019.1573749
M3 - Article
JO - Critical Studies in Education
JF - Critical Studies in Education
SN - 1750-8487
ER -