This volume constitutes the first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business. It argues that corporate behavior cannot be understood in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate, it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. It contains position statements by leading spokespersons for the two major structural perspectives on intercorporate relations--the resource dependence and social class views; essays on markets, money, and relations between corporations and cities; analyses of business structures in Europe, Latin America, Japan and the United States; and a chapter on transnational business relations. The volume as a whole will demonstrate to a wider public the significance and value of a structural approach to business studies.
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"This book adds a new and important dimension to business analysis because it presents a compendium of recent work by scholars who focus not on the characteristics of individual organizations but on the relationships between them." Administrative Science Quarterly
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The value of a structural approach to business studies is expressed in the first compilation of work by leading international scholars to stress the necessity to explore the relationships among businesses in order to understand how they operate.
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The literature on organizations has been dominated by a rationalistic, individualistic perspective and, for the most part, has denied both the reality of organizations as institutions (Zucker, 1983) as well as the embedded and at times quasi-political character of organizational action and choice (Granovetter, 1985). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intraclass bonds, primary interlocks, frozen pizza producers, headquarter locale, top industrial corporations, intraclass structure, secondary interlocks, cooptive relations, prior production period, intercorporate structures, frozen pizza market, principal affiliation, interlock network, bank hegemony, elite cooptation, interlock ties, intercorporate relations, finance capitalists, industrial directors, cohesion formation, directorate ties, business service activity, corporate interlocks, hank capital, business service firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Economic Council, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Association, Michael Schwartz, Latin American, Universidad de los Andes, Bad Homburg Group, San Francisco, World War, Academic Press, Industrial Structure Council, Nippon Steel, Social Problems, Beverly Hills, Department of Sociology, Princeton University Press, Trilateral Commission, Western Europe, Englewood Cliffs, Regional Studies, Roger Friedland New!
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The literature on organizations has been dominated by a rationalistic, individualistic perspective and, for the most part, has denied both the reality of organizations as institutions (Zucker, 1983) as well as the embedded and at times quasi-political character of organizational action and choice (Granovetter, 1985). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intraclass bonds, primary interlocks, frozen pizza producers, headquarter locale, top industrial corporations, intraclass structure, secondary interlocks, cooptive relations, prior production period, intercorporate structures, frozen pizza market, principal affiliation, interlock network, bank hegemony, elite cooptation, interlock ties, intercorporate relations, finance capitalists, industrial directors, cohesion formation, directorate ties, business service activity, corporate interlocks, hank capital, business service firms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Economic Council, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Association, Michael Schwartz, Latin American, Universidad de los Andes, Bad Homburg Group, San Francisco, World War, Academic Press, Industrial Structure Council, Nippon Steel, Social Problems, Beverly Hills, Department of Sociology, Princeton University Press, Trilateral Commission, Western Europe, Englewood Cliffs, Regional Studies, Roger Friedland New!
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- The Power Structure of American Business by Beth A. Mintz on page 82, page 206, and page 232
- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills on page 82, and page 318
- The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective (Stanford Business Classics) by Jeffrey Pfeffer in Front Matter, and page 54
- The Japanese Company by Rodney Clark on page 52, and page 296
- Exchange Networks (SAGE Library of Social Research) by Joseph Galaskiewicz in Front Matter, and page 142
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- Boards at Work: How Directors View their Roles and Responsibilities by Philip Stiles in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Networks, Markets, and the Pacific Rim: Studies in Strategy (Japan Business & Economics) by W. Mark Fruin on page 319, and page 320
- Alliance Capitalism: The Social Organization of Japanese Business by Michael L. Gerlach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kindred Strangers by David Vogel in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Looking Good and Doing Good: Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Power (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies) by Jerome L. Himmelstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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