 Political Representation in Concentrated Industries: Revisiting the "Olsonian Hypothesis"Hart David M.
Business and Politics, 2004, vol. 5, issue 3, 1-27 Abstract: This paper considers whether highly concentrated industries are better represented in the political process, as Olson's Logic of Collective Action suggests, and, if they are, whether this is so for the reasons that the Logic claims. It begins with a review and critique of the quantitative literature that has largely tried and failed to substantiate Olson's view. The bulk of the paper consists of five longitudinal case studies of firms that dominate or have dominated industries: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, America Online, and Cisco. The cases suggest that there is merit to the Olsonian view, but that alone it does not constitute an adequate political theory of the concentrated industry or the dominant firm. Additional variables drawn from organizational and institutional theory need to be incorporated into such a theory, including variables that bear on the allocation of attention, threat perception, and information flow within dominant firms. Date: 2004 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:buspol:v:5:y:2004:i:3:n:2 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Business and Politics is currently edited by Vinod K. Aggarwal More articles in Business and Politics from De Gruyter |
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