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Interlocking Directorates

Overview Reading

  • Mizruchi, Mark S. 1996. What Do Interlocks Do? An Analysis, Critique, and Assessment of Research on Interlocking Directorates. Annual Review of Sociology. 22: 271-98.

Readings

  • Burt. R.S. 1980. Cooptive Corporate Actor Networks: A Reconsideration of Interlocking Directorates Involving American Manufacturing. Administrative Science Quarterly 25: 557-581.

  • Haunschild, P.R. 1993. Interorganizational Imitation: The Impact of Interlocks on Corporate Acquisition Activity. Administrative Science Quarterly 38: 564-592.

  • Kono, Clifford, Donald Palmer, Roger Friedland, & Matthew Zafonte. 1988. Lost in Space: The Geography of Interlocking Directorates. American Journal of Sociology. 103 (4): 863-911.

  • Mizruchi, M.S. & L.B. Stearns. 1988. A Longitudinal Study of the Formation of Interlocking Directorates. Administrative Science Quarterly 33: 194-210.

  • Ornstein, M. 1984. Interlocking Directorates in Canada: Intercorporate or Class Alliance? Administrative Science Quarterly 29: 210-231.

  • Palmer, D. 1983. Broken Ties: Interlocking Directorates and Intercorporate Coordination. Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 40-55.

  • Palmer, D., R. Friedland, & J.V. Singh. 1986. The Ties that Bind: Organizational and Class Bases of Stability in a Corporate Interlock Network. American Sociological Review 51: 781-196.

  • Penning, J.M. 1980. Interlocking Directorates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

  • Richardson, R.J. 1987. Directorship Interlocks and Corporate Profitability. Administrative Science Quarterly 32: 367-386.

  • Zajac, E.J. 1988. Interlocking Directorates as an Interorganizational Strategy: A Test of Critical Assumptions. Academy of Management Journal 31: 428-438.

 

 
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