Neil Fligstein

Person · Open Library

Born

1951-05-23

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

CA

Active from

1945-11-12

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A method for registration of 3-D shapes

   · 1992 · cited 13,915x

2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,117x

3. Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R

   · 2009 · cited 12,579x

4. The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence

   · 2020 · cited 11,276x

5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,795x

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Quotes

• “Younger and smaller firms would be more likely to adopt the MDF (Multidivisional Form) than older and larger ones.”
• “In this book Neil Fligstein takes issue with prevailing theories of the corporation and proposes a radically new view that has important implications for American competitiveness.”
• “They are the basic mechanism of control of the external environment available to managers and entrepreneurs. Organizational fields are not generally benign and cooperative arrangements held in place by a sense of duty or honor the rhetoric and ideology of their proponents might lead one to think so. Instead, they are set up to benefit their most powerful members.”
• “All large organizations have an internal power struggle over the goals and resources of the organization.... In the largest firms, there are two bases of control : formal ownership and authority. Those who own the firm control by virtue of ownership. Authority relations embedded in the organizational structure legitimate how managers can control organizations.”
• “Once in place as control perspectives, they are widely shared ways of reducing complexity of the world. They come into the existence in a piecemeal fashion and are articulated by representatives of the largest, most successful firms. They are propagated by the business press and informal links between organizations and then are supported by those organizations and organizational fields.”
• “The basic insight of the finance conception was that such a firm could be more tightly controlled by strict accounting. This progression does not imply, however, that one conception of control caused the emergence of its successor. New conceptions of control evolved out of key interactions among firms and between firms and the state.”

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Key dates

Born

23 May 1951

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

David

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Seattle

Occupation

economist

Educated at

University of Chicago

Employer

University of California, Berkeley

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship