The corporation, backed by the city's Law Department, has said it has a legal right to keep that money under its contract with the city.
These are all monuments to the rise of a new kind of hybrid corporation, backed by the state but behaving like a private-sector multinational.State-directed capitalism is not a new idea: witness the East India Company.
For a huge corporation backed up by enormous financial support, this is a good example that Chinese companies are capable of changing their environmental or social practices when they have the motivation.
iKobo is a privately held corporation backed by venture capital firms, according to their website, but we've been unable to pin down which investors funded the company.
In the film, the Na'vi must fight to preserve the forest from a mineral corporation backed up by the U.S. military.
By the outright suppression of collective bargaining of wage and salary earners, either via such corporation backed groups as ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, or Republican majorities in the right to work states that inhibit union organizing efforts, for starters.
At a news conference here, members of the task force appeared sensitive to the issue of self-interest on the part of the large corporations backing high-technology spending.
James P. Hackett, chief executive officer of Steelcase, an office furniture company that helped spearhead a series of friend-of-the-court briefs signed by 65 corporations backing the university position, said the ruling would further a trend already taking place in corporate America.
A hard-hitting campaign from a new group called Forecast the Facts persuaded many of the corporations backing Heartland to withdraw $825,000 in funding; an entire wing of the institute, devoted to helping the insurance industry, calved off to form its own non-profit.
