Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521437946 ISBN 13: 9780521437943

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

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.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521437946
• ISBN 13: 9780521437943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Mizruchi Mark S., Schwartz Michael