Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

By C. Perrow. 2002

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Work–Family Role Blurring and Work–Family Conflict (2012, background): “The physical and temporal boundaries delineating these domains solidified in the early 20th century with the growth of the modern bureaucratic workplace (Perrow, 2002), effectively reducing role blurring to an experience of a minority group of workers.”
Perspective - Finding the Organization in Organizational Theory: A Meta-Theory of the Organization as a Social Actor (2010, background): “Because organizations have legal status as actors and because of their unique positions as societal powerholders (Perrow 2002), organizations have responsibility for choices (Coleman 1982, Bovens 1998).”
Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (2007, background): “And while business associations, state regulations, and other forms of economic governance can help solve the problem, they also create opportunities for corporations to pursue new collective forms of opportunistic or predatory behavior, including the capture and subversion of regulatory authorities”