Boards of directors have been the subject of extensive conceptualization and empirical
research. We review literature addressing boards of directors from the perspective of the …

Research on interlocking directorates has gained increasing prominence within the field of
organizations, but it has come under increasing criticism as well. This chapter presents an in …

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This paper provides an overview of the literature on interorganizational relationships.
Although the literature on interorganizational relationships is extensive, a pervasive theme …

Most key insights of the sociology of markets have been framed as reactions to neoclassical
economic views of the functioning of markets. White (1981) suggested that stable production …

This paper is an effort to review and organize the now vast literature on inter firm networks,
with the aim of assessing the important current forms of net work, the organizational …

Despite ubiquitous references to Pfeffer and Salancik's classic volume, The External Control
of Organizations, resource dependence theory is more of an appealing metaphor than a …

▪ Abstract This chapter provides a conceptual framework for integrating the array of variables
defined in diffusion research to explicate their influence on an actor's decision to adopt an …

This book examines almost two decades of research using the structural or network
approach to political behavior. Network analysis begins with the assumption that the most …