Elites are those with vastly disproportionate control over or access to a resource. We can
understand this as a position that a social actor occupies, or we can imagine such resources …

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 …

This study develops a combined agency–resource dependence perspective and applies it to
the study of interlocking directorates. It suggests that interlocking directorates may exert …

What drives organizational nonconformity to global corporate governance norms? Despite
the prevalence of such norms and attendant conformity pressures, many firms do not adhere …

This article examines the historical contingency of executive power and succession in the
higher education publishing industry. We combine interview data with historical analysis to …

Written by one of the foremost scholars in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive, in-
depth analysis of the theories, evidence and methodological issues of contingency theory …

This study examines the role of professional associations in a changing, highly
institutionalized organizational field and suggests that they play a significant role in …

This study measured changes in the constituency of an organizational field centered around
the issue of corporate environmentalism in the period 1960–93, correlating those changes …

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 …

Institutional logics, the underlying governing principles of societal sectors, strongly influence
organizational decision making. Any shift in institutional logics results in a similar shift in …