Business institutions
By: Craig Calhoun, editor.
Contributors: Calhoun, Craig J., 1952-
Series: Comparative social research -- v. 12.
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Industrial sociology; Industries -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a sociology of business / Craig Calhoun; title: Functional and historical logics in explaining the rise of the American industrial corporation / William G. Roy; title: Organizational, demographic and economic determinants of the growth pattern of large firms, 1919-1979 / Neil Fligstein; title: The transformation of the American hospital / Lawton R. Burns; title: Institutionalized patrimonialism in Korean business / Nicole Woolsey Biggart; title: The institutional foundations of Chinese business / Gary G. Hamilton and Kao Cheng-Shu.; title: The comparative study of business organizations and their employees / Arne L. Kalleberg; title: Work organization, business culture and job entitlement in the United States and Japan / Kevin T. Leicht and Michael Wallace; title: Conflicting approaches to citizenship rights / Thomas Janoski; title: The myth and the reality of an autonomous state / George Steinmetz; title: Business and social policy in Canada and the United States, 1920-1940 / Ann Shola Orloff and Eric Parker; title: Capitalists, socialism, and democracy / Evelyne Huber Stephens and John D. Stephens.