Understanding Organizational Power: Building on the Weberian Legacy.

An early draft of this essay was presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings, New York, New York, September 2, 1976. A revision was presented at the series of "Colloquia and Symposia on Max Weber," U niversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 3, 1977. An enormous intellectual debt is owed to Michael Aiken and John Myles for their encouragement and feedback throughout the development of this essay. Many others have offered helpful criticisms of this paper, but several deserve special acknowledgment: Richard Schoenherr, Joseph Elder, Erik Wright, Nancy DiTomaso, Donald Levine, Mayer Zald, Ira Cohen, and Murray Edelman.

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