We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to
matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both …

This article articulates a distinctive source of political influence of some technology firms,
which we call platform power. Platform power inheres in companies of economic scale that …

In trying to understand the roots of this predicament, as well as a way to extricate ourselves
from it, I have come to see the problem as a lack of leadership at the national level. This lack …

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how
companies are bought and sold in four countries-France, Germany, Japan and the …

Wolfgang Streeck is a leading figure in comparative political economy and institutional
theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in …

'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're
winning.'Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 2006 (quoted in Stein 2006) In an …

Although systematic network analyses mapping the social organization of business power
date only from the 1970s, scholars have explored the relations that link corporations and …

This paper provides a conceptual model that explains how competitive and institutional
dynamics at the community level influence the ability of welfare-oriented nonprofits to …

A key debate on the merits and consequences of globalisation asks to what extent we have
moved to a multipolar global political economy. Here we investigate this issue through the …

Social Networks: An Introduction is the first textbook that combines new with still-valuable
older methods and theories. Designed to be a core text for graduate (and some …