Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s–1990s. By Harland Prechel. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 317. $75.50, cloth; $25.95, paper.
本书分析了1880年代至1990年代大企业的发展，连接微观管理者、中观企业和宏观制度层面的行为与变迁，揭示各决策层之间的内在矛盾。
The history of the modern corporation is the history of institutional change and of the corporation's attempt to influence and respond to that change. In this book, Harland Prechel supplies a multilayered analysis of the development of big business from the 1880s to the 1990s. Prechel's approach is to draw linkages between the micro (individual managers), meso (corporate), and macro (institutional) levels of behavior and change. This multilayered analysis allows Prechel to expose the connections and also the inherent “irrationalities” between each layer of decision making.