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Book The Determination of Enterprise Groupings Through Combined Ownership and Directorship Ties

Download or read book The Determination of Enterprise Groupings Through Combined Ownership and Directorship Ties written by Stephen D. Berkowitz and published by University of Toronto, Institute for Policy Analysis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Introduction to Structural Analysis

Download or read book An Introduction to Structural Analysis written by S.D. Berkowitz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Structural Analysis: The Network Approach to Social Research discusses the fundamental concept of structural analysis. The book is comprised of five chapters that tackle the key concepts, central intellectual themes, and principal methodological techniques of structural analysis. Chapter 1 reviews structural analysis, while Chapter 2 discusses the structure of interpersonal communication. Chapter 3 deals with economic structure and elite integration. The book also covers structural models of large-scale processes. The future of structural analysis is also discussed. The text will be useful to scientists, such as sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists who wish to utilize structural analysis in a research study.

Book The Power Structure of American Business

Download or read book The Power Structure of American Business written by Beth A. Mintz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mintz and Schwartz offer a fascinating tour of the corporate world. Through an intensive study of interlocking corporate directorates, they show that for the first time in American history the loan making and stock purchasing and selling powers are concentrated in the same hands: the leadership of major financial firms. Their detailed descriptions of corporate case histories include the forced ouster of Howard Hughes from TWA in the late fifties as a result of lenders' pressure; the collapse of Chrysler in the late seventies owing to banks' refusal to provide further capital infusions; and the very different "rescues" of Pan American Airlines and Braniff Airlines by bank intervention in the seventies.

Book The Structure of Corporate Political Action

Download or read book The Structure of Corporate Political Action written by Mark S. Mizruchi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, Mark S. Mizruchi presents and tests an original model of corporate political behavior. He argues that because the business community is characterized by both unity and conflict, the key issue is not whether business is unified but the conditions under which unity or conflict occurs.

Book Structures of Capital

Download or read book Structures of Capital written by Sharon Zukin and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although market importance is acknowledged, this work's emerging theme is the need to account for the ways in which multiple forms of social organization -- elite groups, communities & government structures -- influence economic processes.

Book The Power of Organizations

Download or read book The Power of Organizations written by Heather A. Haveman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing cardboard boxes to synthesizing new drugs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To understand our world, we must understand organizations. The Power of Organizations defines the features of organizations, examines how they operate, traces their rise over the course of a millennium, and explains how research on organizations has evolved from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Heather Haveman shows how almost all contemporary research on organizations fits into three general perspectives: demographic, relational, and cultural. She offers constructive criticism of existing research, showing how it can be remade to be both more interesting and influential. She examines how we can use existing theories to understand the changes wrought by digital technologies, and she argues that organizational scholars can and should alter the impact that organizations have on society, particularly societal and global inequality, formal politics, and environmental degradation. The Power of Organizations demonstrates the benefits and dangers of these ubiquitous foundations of modern society.

Book Social Structures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Wellman
  • Publisher : CUP Archive
  • Release : 1988-01-29
  • ISBN : 9780521286879
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Social Structures written by Barry Wellman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988-01-29 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of social structures looks at the network approach. It contains non-technical articles that contrast structural analysis with other social scientific approaches. It deals with individual behaviour and identity and with neighbourhood and community ties. It examines the relationships within and between organizations, discussing how firms occupy strategically appropriate niches. It also explores the impact of the growth of the Internet, equating computer networks as social networks connecting people in virtual communities and collaborative work.

Book Toward a Structural Theory of Action

Download or read book Toward a Structural Theory of Action written by Peter H. Rossi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Models of Social Structure, Perception, and Action centers on the concept of social structure, perceptions, and actions, as well as the strategies through which these concepts guide empirical research. This book also proposes a model of status/role-sets as patterns of relationships defining positions in the social topology. This text consists of nine chapters separated into three parts. Chapter 1 introduces the goals and organization of the book. Chapters 2-4 provide analytical synopsis of available network models of social differentiation, and then use these models in describing actual stratification. Chapter 5 presents a model in which actor interests are captured. Subsequent chapter assesses the empirical adequacy of the two predictions described in this book. Then, other chapters provide a network model of constraint and its empirical adequacy. This book will be valuable to anthropologists, economists, political scientists, and psychologists.

Book Social Networks

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Scott
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780415251082
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Social Networks written by John Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together the principal sources in the development of the techniques of social network analysis, from early metaphorical statements in Simmel and Radcliffe-Brown through the more systematic explorations in sociology and social anthropology, to contemporary formalizations. A new introduction explores the history of Social Networks and highlights the arguments of those who treat social network analysis as a loose, qualitative approach as well as those who see its potential in technical, mathematical uses. The thematically organized coverage includes: * Part I: Conceptualizing Social Networks * Part II: Topics and Developments in Graph Theory * Part III: Further Mathematical Models for Networks * Part IV: Applications: Family and Community * Part V: Applications: Corporate Power and Economic Structures * Part VI: Applications: Political, Protest, and Policy Networks * Part VII: Applications: Knowledge, Reputation, and Diffusion

Book Advances in Social Network Analysis

Download or read book Advances in Social Network Analysis written by Stanley Wasserman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994-08-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social network analysis, a method for analyzing relationships between social entities, has expanded over the last decade as new research has been done in this area. How can these new developments be applied effectively in the behavioral and social sciences disciplines? In Advances in Social Network Analysis, a team of leading methodologists in network analysis addresses this issue. They explore such topics as ways to specify the network contents to be studied, how to select the method for representing network structures, how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model, how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology, and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. It also offers statistical models for social support networks. Advances in Social Network Analysis is useful for researchers involved in general research methods and qualitative methods, and who are interested in psychology and sociology.

Book The Corporate Network of Interlocking Directorates  Corporate Governance  and Firm Performance in China s Transitional Economy

Download or read book The Corporate Network of Interlocking Directorates Corporate Governance and Firm Performance in China s Transitional Economy written by Bing Ren and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third, it highlights the complex "agency problem" that has emerged during the process of China's economic development---"managerial class exploitation." Fourth, it highlights the important role of a concentrated ownership structure and state ownership in constraining and facilitating the "managerial class exploitation". The dissertation provides significant insights in the fields of transitional economy, corporate governance, and directorship interlock network.

Book Sociological Abstracts

Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Direct Stockholding and Network Interlocking Directorate Control of Firms in the Agribusiness Sector  1976

Download or read book Direct Stockholding and Network Interlocking Directorate Control of Firms in the Agribusiness Sector 1976 written by Julie A. Caswell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book Special Study

    Book Details:
  • Author : Science Council of Canada
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Special Study written by Science Council of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decision Making and the Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty

Download or read book Decision Making and the Temporal Resolution of Uncertainty written by Larry G. Epstein and published by University of Toronto, Institute for Policy Analysis. This book was released on 1978 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: