Robert Cooley Angell Collegiate Professor of Sociology
mizruchi@umich.eduOffice Information:
4234 LSA Building
Politics and Social Change; Social Networks; Work, Economy, and Organizations; Sociology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1980
Highlighted Work and Publications
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Mark S. Mizruchi
Description from Publisher: In the aftermath of a financial crisis marked by bank-friendly bailouts and loosening campaign finance restrictions, a chorus of critics warns that business leaders have too much influence over American politics. Mark Mizruchi worries about the ways they exert too little. The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite advances the surprising argument that American CEOs, seemingly more powerful today than ever, have abrogated the key leadership role they once played in addressing national challenges, with grave consequences for American society...
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The Structure of Corporate Political Action: Interfirm Relations and Their Consequences
Mark Mizruchi
Description from Publisher: Are large American corporations politically unified or divided? This question, which has important implications for the viability of American democracy, has frustrated social scientists and political commentators for decades. Despite years of increasingly sophisticated research, resolution of the issue remains as elusive as ever.
In this important book, Mark S. Mizruchi presents and tests an original model of corporate political behavior. He argues that because the business community is characterized by both unity and conflict, the key issue...
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Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business
Mark Mizruchi
Description from Publisher: Within the last decade, researchers studying business organizations have come to realize that corporate behaviour cannot be explained in terms of the actions of individual firms alone, and that in order to understand how businesses operate it is necessary to explore the relationships among them. This volume constitutes the first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business, taking relations among companies as the fundamental unit of analysis, and examining the behaviour of...
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The American Corporate Network, 1904-1974
Mark Mizruchi
Description from Publisher: Mizruchi presents a thorough historical examination of interlocking corporate directorates in America between 1904 and 1974. Examining over 167 major American corporations through most of the 20th century, Mizruchi provides new understanding of the changing structure of the American corporate elite. His well researched, methodologically sophisticated book will be of value to a wide range of social scientists.
The American Corporate Network represents the latest and most comprehensive attempt to understand the structural characteristics ...
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