The Development of An Interorganizational Control Network: The Case of Intercollegiate Athletics

Abstract

I am indebted to my colleague W. Jeff Reynolds for encouraging my interest in college athletics and for work on an earlier paper related to this topic. Thanks are owed to Mitchell Lowenthal and Michelle Braun for help in assembling the historical data. Howard Aldrich, along with others, including Paul Hirsch, Marshall Meyer, Charles Perrow, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Lawrence Williams, Mayer Zald, and the editors of this journal have generously provided comments on earlier versions of this paper.