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International Networks of Banks and Industry

Research into interlocking directorates and other organizational ties between large corporations dates back to the beginning of the century. In Germany and the United States interlocking directorates became an important means of coordination and control of large corporations and banks at the end of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fennema, M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Studies in Industrial Organization
Subjects:
Industrial Organization
Sociology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 8.7 Summary
  • IX Summary and Conclusions
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 The structure of the international corporate elite
  • 9.3 Conflict or cooperation
  • 9.4 The meaning of interlocking directorates
  • 9.5 The international corporate elite
  • References
  • Authors Index
  • Firms Index
  • Appendix A.
  • V National Versus International Integration
  • 5.0 Introduction to some graph-theoretical concepts
  • 5.1 General patterns in the international network
  • 5.2 The international network of Western firms
  • 5.3 Industrial concentration versus economic centralization
  • 5.4 Summary
  • VI Domination and Control
  • 6.0 Introduction
  • 6.1 Clusters of heavily interlocked firms
  • 6.2 The network of officer-interlocks
  • 6.3 Summary
  • VII Competition and Cooperation: the role of banks
  • 7.0 Introduction
  • 7.1 Interlocks among banks
  • 7.2 Overlapping spheres of interests
  • 7.3 International bank consortia
  • 7.4 The American banks
  • 7.5 Summary
  • VIII The Impact of World Crisis: changes in the network
  • 8.0 Introduction
  • 8.1 A new economic world order?
  • 8.2 Selection of the 1976 sample
  • 8.3 The international corporate elite
  • 8.4 International versus national integration
  • 8.5 Centrality in the nested networks (1976)
  • 8.6 Domination and control in the 1976 network
  • 0 Introduction
  • I Themes and Problems
  • 1.0 Introduction
  • 1.1 The theory of finance capital
  • 1.2 Interlocking directorates and economic power
  • 1.3 Financial groups
  • 1.4 Corporate elite and capitalist class
  • 1.5 Summary
  • II Between Market and Hierarchy
  • 2.0 Introduction
  • 2.1 The organization of firms and markets: a neo-classical explanation
  • 2.2 Some definitions of firms
  • 2.3 Power and control
  • 2.4 Ownership and control
  • 2.5 Competition, cooperation and control
  • 2.6 Summary
  • III Imperialism in the Seventies: two models
  • 3.0 Introduction
  • 3.1 Theories of imperialism
  • 3.2 Two models
  • 3.3 Research design
  • 3.4 Summary
  • IV The International Corporate Elite
  • 4.0 Introduction
  • 4.1 The organization of the supervising and executive function in different countries
  • 4.2 Selection of the international corporate elite
  • 4.3 Network characteristics of the international corporate elite
  • 4.4 Types of interlocking directorates
  • 4.5 Summary

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