Harland Prechel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611202 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Harland Prechel |
| NOMBRES | Harland |
| APELLIDO | Prechel |
| FIRMA | PRECHEL H |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0147-6217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 176 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Toward theory consolidation
The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between dimensions of the social structure and greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. fossil fueled electrical power plants. While environmental scholars have made important contributions to understanding society-environmental relations, theoretical growth and therefore the capacity to affect environmental policy is hampered by the lack of integration among different middle range perspectiv…
Beyond the undertheorized role of organizational power as political power in theories of the state
Critics express concerns over the theoretical pluralism in theories of the state and state power. This paper explores how organizational theories can provide more focus to theories of the state and state power thereby increasing their explanatory power. After summarizing concerns raised by political sociologists over pluralism in theories of the state and state power, the analysis focuses on existing theories of the state that employ concepts fro…
Neoliberal Organizational and Political-Legal Arrangements and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Electrical Energy Sector
An organizational political economy perspective is elaborated to explain greenhouse gas emissions in the high polluting U.S. electrical energy industry. The analysis includes an examination of neoliberal organizational and political-legal arrangements and how the managerial class in parent companies make substantively different strategic investment decisions that affect greenhouse gas emissions. The quantitative analysis examines the effects of c…
Fordism and Post‐Fordism
Fordism represents developments in the standardization, fragmentation, and specialization of the labor process that include bringing work to the worker via the assembly line, further separating conception from execution, and increasing the pace of work and control over labor. The spread of Fordism created hegemonic forces including the emergence of big firms, big states, big unions, and mass consumption. The economic crises in the 1970s resulted …
Fordism/Post‐Fordism
Fordism represents three critical dimensions of the fragmentation and specialization of the labor process. First, whereas Taylorism developed work rules to standardize the production of parts, Fordism brought standardized parts to the worker. Second, Fordism further separated conception from execution by specifying how to assemble parts into the final product. Third, the assembly line transformed production in ways that made it possible for manag…
Organizational Political Economy and White-Collar Crime
Taylorism
Developed by Frederick Taylor in the 1880s, Taylorism is a form of scientific management that was implemented to increase control over the labor process. Taylor's system of scientific management emphasized the idea that economic success is caused by superior abilities and that those abilities can be learned
Do organizational and political-legal arrangements explain financial wrongdoing
The 2008 financial crisis was a systemic problem with deep-rooted structural causes that created opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance, a form of corporate wrongdoing. However, few quantitative studies exist on the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements on financial malfeasance. In this paper, we examine the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements that emerged in the 1990s in the FIRE sector (i.e.…
Editors' Pick
This paper develops an organizational political economy perspective to examine the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements on environmental pollution. We focus on the largest parent companies in the electrical energy industry because parent companies have ultimate decision-making authority over their polluting facilities, and this economic sector is responsible for a high proportion of environmental pollution. The paper include…
Organizational Political Economy and Environmental Pollution
Environmental scholars have made important progress explaining the social forces associated with pollution. Although important exceptions exist, insufficient attention has been given to organizations, which is where most environmental pollution is produced. Even less attentions has been given to parent companies, which have ultimate decision‐making authority over their polluting facilities. To file this gap in the literature, this paper develops …
The Effects of Organizational Characteristics and State Environmental Policies on Sulfur‐Dioxide Pollution in U.S. Electrical Energy Corporations
Objective This article examines the effects of organizational characteristics of parent companies in the electrical energy industry and state environmental policies on environmental pollution. By focusing on parent companies, the study draws attention to the managers who have the authority to make decisions that affect environmental pollution. Methods The study employs a cross‐sectional ordinary least squares regression design to examine three me…
Firms
Corporate Characteristics, Political Embeddedness and Environmental Pollution by Large U.S. Corporations
Organizational and environmental sociology contain surprisingly few studies of the corporation as one of the sources of environmental pollution. To fill this gap, we focus on the parent company as the unit of analysis and elaborate environmental theories that focus on the organizational and political-legal causes of pollution. Using a compiled longitudinal dataset of corporations in Standard & Poor's 500 from 1994 through 2001, we test hypotheses…
Corporate power and US economic and environmental policy, 1978-2008
The analysis here critically evaluates the 'new corporate environmentalism' and elaborates a relational theory of the state to explain policy formation in the US electrical energy industry. There are several findings. Firstly, corporations mobilize politically to advance their economic agendas and weaken environmental policy. Secondly, after state structures are created to enforce public policy, they provide the socio-political legitimacy for cor…
Social Structure of Accumulation Theory
The Effects of Organizational and Political Embeddedness on Financial Malfeasance in the Largest U.S. Corporations
This article examines the causes of financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. corporations between 1995 and 2004. The findings support organizational-political embeddedness theory, which suggests that differential social structures create dependencies, incentives, and opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance. The historical analysis shows that neoliberal policies enacted between 1986 and 2000 resulted in organizational and political struc…
Politics and Public Policy
Corporate Diversification Revisited
This article examines causes of product-line diversification in the largest 200 U.S. corporations between 1986 and 1996. The analysis shows that some corporations decreased their level of diversification. However, in contrast with previous studies, other corporations became more diversified. Change in the number of first-level subsidiaries and the value of mergers and acquisitions influenced corporate diversification. In contrast with the multidi…
Taylorism
Taylorism was developed by Frederick Taylor in the 1880s. By the 1920s, together with other forms of scientific management, Taylorism was widely adopted in the US and other industrial societies. Taylor was raised in a prominent Philadelphia family, but rejected his parents’ plans for a Harvard education and became an apprentice in a metal‐working plant. Later, he obtained a technical degree. Despite his career focus, Taylor retained the ideologic…
Fordism/Post‐Fordism
Taylorism and other forms of scientific management were implemented in many industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the formalization of control over the labor process was accelerated when Henry Ford and his engineers systematically applied the principles of scientific management to the entire labor process. Fordism represents two critical changes in the historical process of fragmenting tasks and increasing the …
Politics and Neoliberalism
Transitions in American Social Theory and the Decline of Public Sociology at the End of the Twentieth Century
today): if charge is really to look at the implications of terrorist attack on then one would have to examine implications of role New York City plays in international economy and what attacks say about how it is seen elsewhere in world. But those questions, badly as they may need asking, were clearly beyond what sponsors of these volumes undertook to address. Nor did sponsors want to address pol icy implications. Yet there is at least one is sue…
The Economic Sociology of Capitalism
Politics and Globalization
Politics and the Corporation
Steel and the State
Whether states are autonomous and whether unity exists within the capitalist class are questions that have long been debated by political and historical sociologists. I suggest that these questions are historically contingent, and conceptualize the state as an organization that is affected by its own structure and agendas, and by the political coalitions in its environment. I evaluate competing explanations of state business policy formation by e…
The Effects of Organizational and Political Embeddedness on Financial Malfeasance in the Largest U.S. Corporations
This article examines the causes of financial malfeasance in the largest U.S. corporations between 1995 and 2004. The findings support organizational-political embeddedness theory, which suggests that differential social structures create dependencies, incentives, and opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance. The historical analysis shows that neoliberal policies enacted between 1986 and 2000 resulted in organizational and political struc…
Economic Crisis and the Centralization of Control Over the Managerial Process
I analyze the effects of the recent intensification of control over the managerial process in a large steel corporation in the United States. Corporate restructuring was an attempt to overcome constraints on capital accumulation and resolve the contradictions and inefficiencies embedded in the previous controls over the managerial process. Formal controls over the managerial process were intensified to standardize decisions, improve product quali…
The Concept of Social Structure
Corporate power and US economic and environmental policy, 1978-2008
The analysis here critically evaluates the 'new corporate environmentalism' and elaborates a relational theory of the state to explain policy formation in the US electrical energy industry. There are several findings. Firstly, corporations mobilize politically to advance their economic agendas and weaken environmental policy. Secondly, after state structures are created to enforce public policy, they provide the socio-political legitimacy for cor…
Conflict and Historical Variation in Steel Capital-State Relations
Capital Dependence, Business Political Behavior, and Change to the Multilayered Subsidiary Form
In response to economic globalization and uncertainty, big business mobilized politically in the 1970s and 1980s and state managers set up neoliberal economic policies that restructured the institutional arrangements in which corporations are embedded. This article examines why corporations change or do not change their form during a period of economic uncertainty (1981–1993). Using a sample of the 100 largest U.S. industrial parent companies, we…
Do organizational and political-legal arrangements explain financial wrongdoing
The 2008 financial crisis was a systemic problem with deep-rooted structural causes that created opportunities to engage in financial malfeasance, a form of corporate wrongdoing. However, few quantitative studies exist on the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements on financial malfeasance. In this paper, we examine the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements that emerged in the 1990s in the FIRE sector (i.e.…
Organizational Political Economy and Environmental Pollution
Environmental scholars have made important progress explaining the social forces associated with pollution. Although important exceptions exist, insufficient attention has been given to organizations, which is where most environmental pollution is produced. Even less attentions has been given to parent companies, which have ultimate decision‐making authority over their polluting facilities. To file this gap in the literature, this paper develops …
Corporate Form and the State
The largest industrial corporations are changing to a multilayered subsidiary form. Whereas corporations have used subsidiaries to organize their assets since the tum of the century, the number of wholly owned subsidiaries in the 100 largest industrial corporations doubled between 1981 and 1993. The question addressed here is: Why are corporations changing their form now? I suggest that the question is historically contingent and that the answer …
Changing economic conditions and their effects on professional autonomy
The Effects of Exports, Public Debt, and Development on Income Inequality
Classical economics and most modernization theorists hold that a curvilinear relationship exist between income inequality and development level. In this article that relationship is tested. In addition, it is hypothesized that exports and debt as percentages of gross domestic product increases individual income inequality. Regression analyses with controls for development and time were used to test these relationships (N=28 at two time periods). …
Editors' Pick
This paper develops an organizational political economy perspective to examine the effects of organizational and political-legal arrangements on environmental pollution. We focus on the largest parent companies in the electrical energy industry because parent companies have ultimate decision-making authority over their polluting facilities, and this economic sector is responsible for a high proportion of environmental pollution. The paper include…
The Effects of Organizational Characteristics and State Environmental Policies on Sulfur‐Dioxide Pollution in U.S. Electrical Energy Corporations
Objective This article examines the effects of organizational characteristics of parent companies in the electrical energy industry and state environmental policies on environmental pollution. By focusing on parent companies, the study draws attention to the managers who have the authority to make decisions that affect environmental pollution. Methods The study employs a cross‐sectional ordinary least squares regression design to examine three me…
Corporate Diversification Revisited
This article examines causes of product-line diversification in the largest 200 U.S. corporations between 1986 and 1996. The analysis shows that some corporations decreased their level of diversification. However, in contrast with previous studies, other corporations became more diversified. Change in the number of first-level subsidiaries and the value of mergers and acquisitions influenced corporate diversification. In contrast with the multidi…
The Economic Sociology of Capitalism
Irrationality and Contradiction in Organizational Change
This article analyzes historical and interview data on one of the largest steel corporations in the U.S. to determine (1) the effects of financial controls on long-term incremental organizational changes, (2) the effects of the environment on the organization, (3) the degree to which organizations structure their environment, and (4) the conditions that transform the corporate form. Findings demonstrate that transformations emerge from crisis due…
Beyond the undertheorized role of organizational power as political power in theories of the state
Critics express concerns over the theoretical pluralism in theories of the state and state power. This paper explores how organizational theories can provide more focus to theories of the state and state power thereby increasing their explanatory power. After summarizing concerns raised by political sociologists over pluralism in theories of the state and state power, the analysis focuses on existing theories of the state that employ concepts fro…
Neoliberal Organizational and Political-Legal Arrangements and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the U.S. Electrical Energy Sector
An organizational political economy perspective is elaborated to explain greenhouse gas emissions in the high polluting U.S. electrical energy industry. The analysis includes an examination of neoliberal organizational and political-legal arrangements and how the managerial class in parent companies make substantively different strategic investment decisions that affect greenhouse gas emissions. The quantitative analysis examines the effects of c…
Exchange in Levi-Strauss's Theory of Social Organization
This paper explicates the role of exchange in Levi-Strauss's theory of social organization, and integrates it into his general problematic. It focuses primarily on the original works of Claude Levi-Strauss, but also incorporates and critically reviews certain aspects of Ekeh (1974) and Turner (1974). Although Levi-Strauss is an anthropologist, his theoretical insights can be especially useful to the sociologist interested in macrosociology
The Effects of Exports, Public Debt, and Development on Income Inequality
Classical economics and most modernization theorists hold that a curvilinear relationship exist between income inequality and development level. In this article that relationship is tested. In addition, it is hypothesized that exports and debt as percentages of gross domestic product increases individual income inequality. Regression analyses with controls for development and time were used to test these relationships (N=28 at two time periods). …
Technological Innovation and Capital Accumulation in Sub..Saharan Africa
Development policy and therole of technology in thecapital aceumulat ion process has beena subject of controversy since the 1960s. This paper reviews the divergent opinions on this issue, critiques development policy in sub~Saharan Africa, and analyzes how its connection to the global economy affects Africa's ability to accumulate capital and realize longt erm growth. The paper demonstrates that the urban-oriented modemizat ionist policies of the…
Profit Seeking Organizations
This essay is critical of traditional conceptions of organizations, which attempt to develop models and propositions that apply to all kinds of organizations, employ nomothetic ahistorical methods, or assume that organizational change is an outcome of rational managerial decisions. In contrast to these mainstream perspectives, the theoretical framework herein is anchored in the Marxian and radical Weberian traditions in organization theory. This …
Steel and the State
Whether states are autonomous and whether unity exists within the capitalist class are questions that have long been debated by political and historical sociologists. I suggest that these questions are historically contingent, and conceptualize the state as an organization that is affected by its own structure and agendas, and by the political coalitions in its environment. I evaluate competing explanations of state business policy formation by e…
The Concept of Social Structure
Irrationality and Contradiction in Organizational Change
This article analyzes historical and interview data on one of the largest steel corporations in the U.S. to determine (1) the effects of financial controls on long-term incremental organizational changes, (2) the effects of the environment on the organization, (3) the degree to which organizations structure their environment, and (4) the conditions that transform the corporate form. Findings demonstrate that transformations emerge from crisis due…
Conflict and Historical Variation in Steel Capital-State Relations
A Tale of Two Industries
Part 1 The context - coal and steel 1970-85 expansion and contraction - two sides of state planning international markets a privatizing tendency Part 2 The closure of Horden colliery the colliery and its reserves closure Part 3 Themes, issues, problems rationalization, privatization and the market halting economic decline
Economic Crisis and the Centralization of Control Over the Managerial Process
I analyze the effects of the recent intensification of control over the managerial process in a large steel corporation in the United States. Corporate restructuring was an attempt to overcome constraints on capital accumulation and resolve the contradictions and inefficiencies embedded in the previous controls over the managerial process. Formal controls over the managerial process were intensified to standardize decisions, improve product quali…
Changing economic conditions and their effects on professional autonomy
Selling Free Enterprise
Corporate Form and the State
The largest industrial corporations are changing to a multilayered subsidiary form. Whereas corporations have used subsidiaries to organize their assets since the tum of the century, the number of wholly owned subsidiaries in the 100 largest industrial corporations doubled between 1981 and 1993. The question addressed here is: Why are corporations changing their form now? I suggest that the question is historically contingent and that the answer …
Big Business and the State
New World, New Rules
The State in Modern Society
Capital Dependence, Business Political Behavior, and Change to the Multilayered Subsidiary Form
In response to economic globalization and uncertainty, big business mobilized politically in the 1970s and 1980s and state managers set up neoliberal economic policies that restructured the institutional arrangements in which corporations are embedded. This article examines why corporations change or do not change their form during a period of economic uncertainty (1981–1993). Using a sample of the 100 largest U.S. industrial parent companies, we…
Power
Politics and the Corporation
Politics and Globalization
Taylorism
Taylorism was developed by Frederick Taylor in the 1880s. By the 1920s, together with other forms of scientific management, Taylorism was widely adopted in the US and other industrial societies. Taylor was raised in a prominent Philadelphia family, but rejected his parents’ plans for a Harvard education and became an apprentice in a metal‐working plant. Later, he obtained a technical degree. Despite his career focus, Taylor retained the ideologic…
Fordism/Post‐Fordism
Taylorism and other forms of scientific management were implemented in many industries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. However, the formalization of control over the labor process was accelerated when Henry Ford and his engineers systematically applied the principles of scientific management to the entire labor process. Fordism represents two critical changes in the historical process of fragmenting tasks and increasing the …
Politics and Neoliberalism
Transitions in American Social Theory and the Decline of Public Sociology at the End of the Twentieth Century
today): if charge is really to look at the implications of terrorist attack on then one would have to examine implications of role New York City plays in international economy and what attacks say about how it is seen elsewhere in world. But those questions, badly as they may need asking, were clearly beyond what sponsors of these volumes undertook to address. Nor did sponsors want to address pol icy implications. Yet there is at least one is sue…
The Economic Sociology of Capitalism
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