THE AMERICAN SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEM

American Socioeconomic System

American Socioeconomic System

A conceptual framework specifying the interactions between societal, cultural, and political-economic features, and their combined impact on organizations has yet to be constructed, but at least the conceptual disaggregation and analytical isolation of each one of those influences can be attempted and their ideal-typical effects can be delineated. If the latter mode of analysis is followed, a theory of the socialist firm would have to specify the necessary connections between a socialist socio-economic system and formal organizational characteristics, as opposed to the latter are relationships with 'mere' historical contingencies, or deeper national cultural ...