FROM THE TRANSFORMATION OF CORPORATE CONTROL

By Neil Fligstein. The New Economic Sociology, 2021

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Tools of the trade: the socio-technology of arbitrage in a Wall Street trading room (2004, positive): “Our analysis starts with the fundamental theme that network analysis shares with other schools of economic sociology – the conception that markets are social (Granovetter 1985; Fligstein, 1990; Uzzi 1997).”
Where do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the U.S. Economy, 1970-2006 (2009, background): “Back then, successful US firms aspired to a high level of vertical integration, which meant controlling many different stages of the production process under one corporate roof (Fligstein, 1990).”
Corporate Elites and Corporate Strategy: How Demographic Preferences and Structural Position Shape the Scope of the Firm (2004, background): “Hayes and Abernathy (1980) and Fligstein (1990) both argue that corporate elites’ functional background experiences are reflected in their firms’ diversification level and acquisition activities.”
Founding the Future: Path Dependence in the Evolution of Top Management Teams from Founding to IPO (2008, background): “In addition, there is growing evidence that the functional background experiences of a TMT influence how it defines and enacts organizational positions (Fligstein 1990, Phillips 2005).”
Why would corporations behave in socially responsible ways? an institutional theory of corporate social responsibility (2007, background): “I focus on the institutional determinants of corporate social responsibility because firms are embedded in a broad set of political and economic institutions that affect their behavior (e.g., Campbell, Hollingsworth, & Lindberg, 1991; Fligstein, 1990, 2001b; Roe 1991, 1994).”
Entrepreneurship in and around institutional voids: A case study from Bangladesh (2009, background): “It is widely agreed that the state, and therefore the government, is responsible for the creation and development of such social institutions (Fligstein, 1990; Hooks, 1990).”
Challengers, Elites, and Owning Families: A Social Class Theory of Corporate Acquisitions in the 1960s (2001, background): “this behavior (Fligstein, 1990; Stearns and Allan, 1996).”
Strategy and commitments to institutional logics: Organizational heterogeneity in business models and governance (2016, background): “Accompanying the rise of market logics in US corporate sectors post-1980 (Fligstein, 1990), strategic management has increasingly defined the subject and objective of value in terms such as competitive advantage and value capture (Jensen, 2010; Porter, 1980, 1985).”
Institutional Analysis and the Paradox of Corporate Social Responsibility (2006, background): “Managers learn these standards by absorbing the messages that are transmitted to them at business schools and through professional publications (Fligstein, 1990; Guillén, 1994).”
The Temporalities of Capitalism (2008, background): “…that transform economic life on a world scale; others are more meso-level institutional developments like the rise of the financial model of control in American corporations or the emergence of ‘codetermination’ in post-war West German labour relations (Fligstein, 1990; Thelen, 1991).”
The government of self-regulation: on the comparative dynamics of corporate social responsibility (2011, background): ““politicization of the economic” (or “market politicization”) that are also constitutive of socio-economic hybridization through CSR, thereby overlooking the fact that „socially responsible‟ market-building also involves governmental and legal intervention (Fligstein 1990).”
The Influence of National Culture and Institutional Voids on Family Ownership of Large Firms: A Country Level Empirical Study (2009, positive): “…1997; Cox, 1996; Guillén, 2001; Mazlish, 1993), and institutional economists have suggested that the process of overcoming institutional voids often meets considerable resistance from various sel ﬁ sh interests and is therefore a very slow process (Eggertsson, 1990; Fligstein, 1990; North, 1990).”