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Corporate actors: Definition, genesis, and interaction
This paper focuses on the genesis of corporate actors - an upward transfer of decision-making rights and control functions within member-created organizations. It argues that the formation of oligarchies and oligarchic corporatization - as envisaged by Robert Michels - are both far more problematic than it is usually assumed, while member-activated corporatization is an often encountered phenomenon, which, however, does not exhaust all the possible routes to corporatization. Among those the paper singles out corporatization achieved through cross-system coalitions for closer inspection. The final section shows how different corporate structures, once in place, shape intercorporate interactions and thwart organizational goal-realization, thus spurring on further corporatization.
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Englisch
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Series: MPIfG Discussion Paper ; No. 90/11
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Flam, Helena
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Veröffentlichung
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
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Köln
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1990
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- Arbeitspapier
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- Flam, Helena
- Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
Time of origin
- 1990
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