Organizing for Collective Action

Organizing for Collective Action

Author: David Knoke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-01-15

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1351328700

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Organizing for Collective Action investigates the political and economic behaviors of national associations, including trade associations, professional societies, labor unions, and public interest groups. It focuses upon the ways that these organizations acquire resources and allocate them to various collective actions, particularly for member services, public relations, and political action. This analysis is structured around three broad theoretical paradigms for collective action: (1) the problem of societal integration which concerns the ways that people are tied to organizations and the ways that organizations connect their members with the larger society; (2) the problem of organizational governance which considers how individuals become unified collectivities capable of acting in a coordinated manner, and (3) the problem of public policy influence which involves interactions among public and private interest groups to formulate the binding decisions under which we all must live.


Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932

Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932

Author: Gerald Berk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-06-22

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0521425964

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This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the U.S. by tracing the development of regulated competition. Conceptualized by Brandeis and implemented by trade associations and the Federal Trade Commission, regulated competition checked economic power by channeling competition from predation into improvement in products and production processes.


Guide to Reference in Business and Economics

Guide to Reference in Business and Economics

Author: Steven W. Sowards

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2014-07-22

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0838996353

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Focusing on print and electronic sources that are key to business and economics reference, this work is a must-have for every reference desk.


Strategic And Critical Materials

Strategic And Critical Materials

Author: L. Harold Bullis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1000313190

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Much attention has been focused on U.S. dependency on imports for supplies of strategic minerals and materials. There is alarm about the extent of that dependency and about the possibility that U.S. economic, political, and strategic decisions might be unduly influenced by arbitrary actions of foreign suppliers. In addition, there is concern that t


Scientific and Technical Information Resources

Scientific and Technical Information Resources

Author: Krishina Subramanyam

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1000147606

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This book focuses on current practices in scientific and technical communication, historical aspects, and characteristics and bibliographic control of various forms of scientific and technical literature. It integrates the inventory approach for scientific and technical communication.


Solidarity in Strategy

Solidarity in Strategy

Author: Lyn Spillman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-07-27

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0226769550

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Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism. In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests. Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences economic.