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Klappentext The first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business. Zusammenfassung The volume as a whole will demonstrate to a broader public the significance and value of a structural approach to business studies! and will appeal to sociologists! organization theorists! business scholars! economists! political scientists! and business historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Introduction Mark S. Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz; Part I. Theoretical Perspectives: 1. A resource dependence perspective on intercorporate relations Jeffrey Pfeffer; 2. Finance capital and the internal structure of the capitalist class in the United States Michael Soref and Maurice Zeitlin; 3. A structural approach to markets Eric M. Leifer and Harrison C. White; 4. What is money? a social structural interpretation Wayne E. Baker; 5. Corporation, class, and city system Donald A. Palmer and Roger Friedland; Part II. National and International Business Structures: A Comparative Perspective: 6. The structure of class cohesion: the corporate network and its dual James Bearden and Beth Mintz; 7. Intercorporate structures in Western Europe: a comparative historical analysis John Scott; 8. The articulation of power and business structures: a study of Colombia Enrique Ogliastri and Carlos Dávila; 9. Business-government relations in modern Japan: a Todai-Yakkai-Zaikai complex? Koji Taira and Teiichi Wada; 10. International bank capital and the new liberalism Meindert Fennema and Kees van der Pijl; Index of authors; Subject index.
