U.S. Coal Goes Abroad: Patterns in Interorganizational Networks
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“As a study of the expansion of international activities of the U.S. coal industry from 1979 through 1982, U.S. Coal Goes Abroad has much to recommend it.... The greatest value of this book, perhaps, is its social action perspective. As a qualitative analytical framework, it takes us away from the overemphasis on a single organization or organization-type which often occurs. Further, it provides a means of looking at the organization/environment interaction which is so poorly handled by quantitative techniques.... The story that Rogers develops is rich with organizational action and alignment.... Rogers gives us an interesting look into some of the intra-industry politics that internationalization created.”–
“Kathryn Rogers' study of the coal industry is much more than an examination of how a complex and threatened industry responded to major environmental change. It is a conceptual and methodological work of note, because the author has found a remarkably effective way to integrate multiple research perspectives and a variety of units of analysis into a coherent `social action' framework.... Rogers' layered analysis of the realignments in the coal industry operationalizes the interpenetrating systems theory which social issues researchers have used for a decade and demonstrates the way social values and cultural assumptions influence both market and political system exchanges. This is beneficial to scholars who have tried to integrate business and political behaviors into a coherent framework of organizational and/or strategic management theory. Rogers derives much methodological support from institutional sociology, but the work is easily related to resource-dependence, social control, and stakeholder theories. An excellent theoretical appendix provides a cogent assessment of the current state of organization-environment theory.”–
Book Description
In this study the author discusses the United States coal industry's response to changes in a dramatically growing sector of its market--export demand. Covering the period from 1980 to 1982, Rogers describes how the coal industry, a traditionally slow moving industry unaccustomed to rapid market change, readied itself to serve unprecedented export demands.
U.S. Coal Goes Abroad: Patterns in Interorganizational Networks,Kathryn S. Rogers,Praeger Publishers,0275900363,Business / Economics / Finance,Chemical And Mineral Industries (Economic Aspects),Coal trade,Foreign economic relations,International - General,United States,Business & Economics / General,Chemical industries,Coal & solid fuel industries
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