This article examines the relationship of executive level ties between firms and firm behavior. By doing so, the article places an emphasis on elites within corporations as actors in policy-making in a field that has been largely state-centric in its analysis. Taking corporate interests into the...

The agent-based approach views an organization as a collection of agents, interacting with one another in their pursuit of assigned tasks. The performance of an organization in this framework is determined by the formal and informal structures of interactions among agents, which define the lines...