Changing Organizations: Business Networks In The New Political Economy

Understanding organizational change requires viewing the American political economy as a system where money and power intimately intertwine at every level. Network relations are indispensable for analyzing continual transformations of organizational structures and actions. A comprehensive explanation of changing necessitates blending the concepts, theories, and data from the many disciplines comprising organization studies: sociology, business management, economics, law, political science, public administration, social psychology, history, and journalism. A multidisciplinary approach helps us to understand how corporations changed over the twentieth century, and where they may be headed in the new one.

David Knoke is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota.