Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes

To date, this book represents the most comprehensive coverage of the variations of corporate governance. John Scott has done us a service in bringing together the data on ownership patterns, banking interlocks, size, network density, and many more features of advanced industrialized countries. And on top of this, he adds in the latest studies on Latin America, central and eastern Europe, and Asia. I have found myself running to this book in itsmanuscript form. It will serve as one of the most important sources in comparative institutional work.'Bruce Kogut, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvaniaa thorough reworking of Scott’s earlier work, Classes Corporations and Capitalism … added to so extensively that a new title is easily justified … the scope of Scott’s knowledge of the debates and literature is displayed to telling effect … this book is an invaluable synthesis of existing kowledge of patterns of ownership and control. Anybody interested in the area will have to engage with Scott’s impressive contribution.‘Bob Carter, Sociologya state-of-the-art synthesis of existing research in this area by one of the subject's leading authorities. Specialists will also be rewarded by the emphasis on cross-national and comparative questions, for it is here that much of the debate is now taking place ...Scott's book still contains more substance than many of the prescriptively oriented studies of corporate governance that are being produced from within various Western business schools.'Patrick McGovern, Work, Employment and SocietyA long historical sweep on European business, and a full descriptive account of the different corporate structures that prevail around the world … its real contribution lies … in providing a description of the different forms of corporate governance that are found in the variety of models around the world … The discussion of this provides enormous detail, all documented thoroughly, and will undoubtedly be a valuable source … the analysis iswide-ranging and it all leads to an ambitious and extended treatment of the nature of the world economy, of inequalities of income and wealth, and ultimately of class formation.‘Times Higher Education`This book comprises a through reworking of Scott’s earlier work, ‘Classes, Corporations and Capitalism’ … the book had serious implications for a number of current debates … the scope of Scott’s knowledge of the debates and literature is displayed to telling effect. The book is written with impressive clarity and authority … an invaluable synthesis of existing knowledge of patterns of ownership and control. Anybody interested in the area will haveto engage with Scott’s impressive contribution.‘Bob Carter, Sociology

John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. An active member of the British Sociological Association, he served as its President from 2001 until 2003. He has written more than fifteen books, including Corporate Business and Capitalist Classes (1997), Social Network Analysis (1991 and 2000), Sociological Theory (1995), and Power (2001). With James Fulcher he is the author of the leading introductory textbook Sociology (1999 and 2003). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Sociology and is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the So