Constructing Corporate America

Download or read book Constructing Corporate America written by Kenneth Lipartito and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth and twentieth-century American Society.