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...

What enables some organizations to routinely perform better than others? Conversely, what makes some firms consistently perform worse than their competitors? Within a single corporation, what enables some teams or individual firm members to outperform their counterparts? Through the concept of...

Frontmatter -- Zur "Managementforschung" -- Vorwort -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Systemrationalisierung an ihren Grenzen - Organisationsgrenzen und Funktionen von Grenzstellen in Wirtschaftsorganisationen -- Die Gestaltung von Systempartnerschaften zwischen Automobilherstellern und ihren Zulieferern...