This paper attempts to further theoretical and empirical understanding of adherent and constituent mobilization by proposing and analyzing frame alignment as a conceptual bridge linking social psychological and resource mobilization views on movement participation. Extension of Goffinan's (1974) frame analytic perspective provides the conceptualltheoretical framework; field research on two religious movements, the peace movement, and several neighborhood movements provide the primary empirical base. Four frame alignment processes are identified and elaborated: frame bridging, frame amplification, frame extension, and frame transformation. The basic underlying premise is that frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment. The paper concludes with an elaboration of several sets of theoretical and research implications.

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Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.

This article is intended to enhance the position of stakeholder theory as an integrating theme for the business and society field. It offers an instrumental theory of stakeholder management based on a synthesis of the stakeholder concept, economic theory, behavioral science, and ethics. The core theory—that a subset of ethical principles (trust, trustworthiness, and cooperativeness) can result in significant competitive advantage—is supplemented by nine research propositions along with some research and policy implications.

Instrumental stakeholder theory: a synthesis of ethics and economics

This paper presents systematic empirical evidence for the financialization of the US economy in the post-1970s period. While numerous researchers have noted the increasing salience of finance, there have been few systematic attempts to consider what this shift means for the nature of the economy, considered broadly. In large part, this omission reflects the considerable methodological difficulties associated with using national economic data to assess the rise of finance as a macro-level phenomenon shaping patterns of accumulation in the US economy. The paper develops two discrete measures of financialization and applies these measures to postwar US economic data in order to determine if, and to what extent, the US economy is becoming financialized. The paper concludes by considering some of the implications of financialization for two areas of ongoing debate in the social sciences: (1) the question of who controls the modern corporation; and (2) the controversy surrounding the extent to which globalization has eroded the autonomy of the state.

The financialization of the American economy

Research on interlocking directorates has gained increasing prominence within the field of organizations, but it has come under increasing criticism as well. This chapter presents an in-depth examination of the study of interlocking directorates. I focus initially on both the determinants and the consequences of interlocking directorates, reviewing alternative accounts of both phenomena. Special attention is paid to the processual formulations implied by various interlock analyses. I then address the two primary criticisms of interlock research and evaluate the tenability of these criticisms. I conclude with a discussion of future directions for interlock research.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2083432.pdf

What Do Interlocks Do? An Analysis, Critique, and Assessment of Research on Interlocking Directorates

There has been rapid growth in the study of diffusion across organizations and social movements in recent years, fueled by interest in institutional arguments and in network and dynamic analysis. This research develops a sociologically grounded account of change emphasizing the channels along which practices flow. Our review focuses on characteristic lines of argument, emphasizing the structural and cultural logic of diffusion processes. We argue for closer theoretical attention to why practices diffuse at different rates and via different pathways in different settings. Three strategies for further development are proposed: broader comparative research designs, closer inspection of the content of social relations between collective actors, and more attention to diffusion industries run by the media and communities of experts.

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DIFFUSION IN ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: From Hybrid Corn to Poison Pills

An "astonishing consensus" exists among academic social scientists concerning the impact of the alleged separation of ownership and control in large corporations on the class structures and political economies of the United States and similar countries. The question is whether this separation is a "pseudofact," which has, therefore, inspired incorrect "explanations," "inferences," and "theories," namely, that the presumed separation has either transformed or eliminated the former "capitalist class" and therefore rendered inapplicable a class theory of the division of the social product, class conflict, social domination, political processes, and historical change. If the separation of ownership and control has not occurred, then "managerial" theories are without foundation. The discrepant findings of numerous studies are reviewedand problems of method and measurement discussed, concluding that the empirical question is quite open. Critical questions are posed for research into the internal differentiation...

Corporate Ownership and Control: The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class

This penetrating sociological study of the causes, consequences, and historical meaning of the civil wars in mid- and late-nineteenth century Chile argues that they were abortive bourgeois revolutions fought out among rival segments of Chile's dominant class. Indeed, it concludes that, in general, not only class but also intraclass struggles can be decisive historically, especially at transitional moments.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Civil Wars in Chile: (or The Bourgeois Revolutions that Never Were)

This is a study of the ownership and control of the 37 largest corporations in Chile in 1964-66. Using the method of Berle and Means, we found a pattern of "management-control" in Chile similar to the one they found in the United States. However, our method, employing the concepts of "kinecon group" and "intercorporate control," reveals that all but one of the 15 ostensibly "management-controlled" corporations were actually controlled by specific proprietary interests. Analysis of this one management-controlled corporation also does not support prevalent inferences concerning the impact of management-control on class structure. We present a new paradigm for the analysis of the control of large corporations.

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"New Princes" for Old? The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class in Chile

Part I The capitalist class: corporate ownership and control - the large corporation and the capitalist class on class theory of the large corporation management control, exploitation, and profit maximization in the large corporation - an empirical confrontation of managerialism and class theory finance capital and the internal structure of the capitalist class in the United States who owns America? - the same old gang. Part 2 The working class in the United States and other places death in Vietnam - class, poverty, and the risks of war how mighty a force? the internal differentiation and relative orgtaization of the American working class political generations in the Cuban working class miners and agrarian radicalism. Part 3 Revolution and reform: Cuba - revolution without a blueprint Chilean revolution - the bullet or the ballot democratic investment.

Maurice Zeitlin

Papers

Corporate Ownership and Control: The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class

The Civil Wars in Chile: (or The Bourgeois Revolutions that Never Were)

"New Princes" for Old? The Large Corporation and the Capitalist Class in Chile

The Large Corporation and Contemporary Classes

Agrarian Radicalism in Chile