Chandler and the sociology of organizations

Business History Review

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 241-250

  Fligstein, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 50849087665     PISSN: 00076805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007680500062747     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of Industrial Enterprise (Cambridge, Mass., 1962).
2. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (Cambridge, Mass., 1993).
3. Max Weber, Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology (Berkeley, Calif., 1978), 901-40.
4. See, for example, Peter Blau and Richard Scott, Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (San Francisco, 1962)
5. and Jerald Hage and Michael Aiken, Social Change in Complex Organizations (New York, 1970).
6. Alvin Gouldner, Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy (New York, 1954);
7. Michel Crozier, The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (Chicago, 1964);
8. Philip Selznick, TVA and the Grassroots: A Study in the Sociology of Formal Organization (New York, 1966).
9. Charles Perrow, Organizations: A Critical Essay (Glenview, Ill., 1972).
10. Herbert Simon, Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization (New York, 1957);
11. and James March and Herbert Simon, Organizations (New York, 1958).
12. For a review of these perspectives, see Robert Miles, Macro-Organizational Behavior (New York, 1984).
13. March and Simon, Organizations; and Oliver Williamson, "The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes," Journal of Economic Literature 19 (Dec. 1981): 1537-68;
14. Alfred D. Chandler Jr., "Historical Determinants of Managerial Hierarchies: A Response to Perrow," in Perspectives on Organizational Design and Behavior, ed. Andrew Van de Ven and William Joyce (New York, 1981), 391-402.
15. For examples of "comparative capitalisms," see Ronald P. Dore, "The Distinctiveness of Japan," in The Political Economy of Modem Capitalism: Mapping Convergence and Diversity, ed. Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck (London, 1997), 19-32;
16. Michel Albert, Capitalism against Capitalism (London, 1993);
17. and Peter A. Hall and David W. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage (New York, 2001).
18. For "comparative business systems," see Richard Whitley and Peer H. Kristensen, The Changing European Firm: Limits to Convergence (London, 1995).
19. See Howard Aldrich, Organizations and Environments (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1979);
20. and Michael Hannan and John Freeman, "The Population Ecology of Organizations," American Journal of Sociology 82 (Nov. 1977): 929-64.
21. John Meyer and Brian Rowan, "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony," American Journal of Sociology 83 (Sept. 1977): 340-63;
22. Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, "'The Iron Cage Revisited': Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields," American Sociological Review 48 (Apr. 1983): 147-60.
23. Frank Dobbin, Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (New York, 1994);
24. William Roy, Socializing Capital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation in America (Princeton, N.J., 1997);
25. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism (Princeton, N.J., 2002);
26. Robert Freeland, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation: Organizational Change at General Motors, 1924-1970 (New York, 2005);
27. and Neil Fligstein, The Transformation of Corporate Control (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).