What's Wrong with the American Corporation?

Abstract

At the American Sociological Association meetings in August, Contexts sponsored a forum on recent trends in how corporations are run and for whom. The panelists were Frank Dobbin, Harvard University; Nicole Biggart, Dean of the Management School at the University of California at Davis; and Neil Fligstein, from the University of California at Berkeley — all prominent economic sociologists who have written about corporate Governance. James Jasper moderated the panel and edited the following transcript, a small portion of the original discussion.