Full Description
This interdisciplinary collection places corporate security in a theoretical and international context. Arguing that corporate security is becoming the primary form of security in the twenty-first century, it explores a range of issues including regulation, accountability, militarization, strategies of securitization and practitioner techniques.
Contents
Foreword; Mark Button Introduction: Governing every Person, Place, and Thing: Critical Studies of Corporate Security; Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert PART I: MAKING SENSE OF CORPORATE SECURITY: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Corporate Security at Ford Motor Company: From the Great War to the Cold War; Robert P. Weiss 2. Beyond the Regulatory Gaze? Corporate Security, (In)Visibility and the Modern State; Adam White 3. The Private Eyes of Corporate Culture: The Forensic Accounting and Corporate Investigation Industry and the Production of Corporate Financial Security; James W. Williams 4. The Politics of Corporate Security and the Translation of National Security; Karen Lund Petersen PART II: EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES OF CORPORATE SECURITY IN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 5. Corporate Security: Governing through Private and Public Law in the Netherlands; Clarissa Meerts 6. Expertise and the Professionalization of Municipal Corporate Security in Canadian Cities; Kevin Walby, Alex Luscombe, and Randy K. Lippert 7. Operational Risk and Reputational Compromise: Managing the Militarization of Corporate Security in Iraq; Conor O'Reilly 8. Relationships and Conflicts in Canadian University Corporate Security Networks; Blair Wilkinson 9. Corporate Security, Licensing and Civil Accountability in the Australian Night-Time Economy; Ian Warren and Darren Palmer PART III: CORPORATE SECURITY: CHALLENGES AND DILEMMAS IN THE FIELD 10. Trends and Issues in Corporate Security Practice and Regulation in Australia; Rick Sarre and Tim Prenzler 11. Corporate Security and the Stratum of Security Management; David J. Brooks and Jeffery Corkill 12. Corporate Security and Enterprise Risk Management; Alison Wakefield 13. Crime and Security Liability Concerns at Shopping Centers; Dennis M. Savard and Daniel B. Kennedy
