Networks of Power: Organizational Actors at the National, Corporate, and Community Levels (Social Institutions and Social Change Series) - Softcover

Perrucci, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202303438 ISBN 13: 9780202303437

Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1989

Synopsis

Large organizations, particularly corporations, possess considerable resources, and with that comes considerable power, often extending beyond a single community or nation-state. Networks among large corporations enhance that power to the point that they exert a major impact on national and multinational economies and policies, influencing decision-making to achieve their own goals.Networks of Power applies interorganizational analysis to the study of power in three main areas: national policy domains, community influence structures, and national corporate structures. The main body of the text is comprised of original research by the leading authorities in the field and covers such areas as national policy decisions in health and energy, corporate structure, innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, and a critical review of network analysis of interorganizational relations and power. Also presented is an agenda for future research.

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Review:

"A collection of four papers and two commentaries (plus an introduction by the editors) from a 1986 conference, Interorganizational Relations and the Study of Power... The collection could be a useful way of introducing students to this field. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

--R. W. Avery, Choice

"A collection of four papers and two commentaries (plus an introduction by the editors) from a 1986 conference, Interorganizational Relations and the Study of Power... The collection could be a useful way of introducing students to this field. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

--R. W. Avery, Choice

-A collection of four papers and two commentaries (plus an introduction by the editors) from a 1986 conference, Interorganizational Relations and the Study of Power... The collection could be a useful way of introducing students to this field. Upper-division undergraduates and above.-

--R. W. Avery, Choice

About the Author:

Robert Perrucci is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University. He has published numerous articles and ten books on topics related to the interplay of technology and society, work and occupations, and complex organizations. He is co-author of Plant Closings: International Context and Social Costs (Aldine de Gruyter, 1988), and is currently researching the impact on regional economies of Japanese-owned automobile manufacturing plants in the U.S.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aldine Transaction
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0202303438
• ISBN 13: 9780202303437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136