In search of power
The organization of business interests in Silicon Valley and Route 128
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2160368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annalee Saxenian |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-70 |
| Publication date | 1989-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085148900000002 |
| OpenAlex | W1982957082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 11 |
The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley and Route 128 - America’s leading centers of technological innovation - organized politically in the late 1970s. This paper seeks to explain why high tech business associations in these two regions have adopted widely divergent political stances and behavior. It argues that business interests are defined through the process of organization, and that the attitudes of these groups of industrialists were shaped by distinctive political environments, in turn a result of the different industrial and social histories of the two regions. While much scholarly interest has been devoted to the ways in which business affects political outcomes, the paper suggests that the reciprocal causation is equally important: the political environment is an important determinant of business interests
Business · Causation · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Reciprocal · Silicon valley · Sociology · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2022 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |