ICOS Presents:

"Private, Public or Cooperative?:
Ownership, Organizational Form and Industrial Order in the US Electrical Utility Industry
in the Progressive Era and Early New Deal"

Professor Marc Schneiberg

Department of Sociology, Reed College

April 8, 2005

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Introduction (00:01:40)

Title Slide (00:01:44)

Geography of Class Insurance Mutuals 1903 (00:02:52)

"Dominant Logic" Thesis (00:02:45)

Plan of Action (00:01:52)

Economic Organization in the Electrical Utility Industry (00:02:32)

Number of Municipal Utilities (00:00:38)

Municipal Output and Customers Served (00:00:18)

Municipal Utilities by State - 1922 (00:00:51)

Number of Electrical Cooperatives (00:01:01)

Cooperatives Output and Customers Served (00:00:12)

Electrical Cooperatives by State - 1947 (00:02:20)

Economics of Organization Basic Argument (00:00:57)

Market and Contracting Failures (00:03:50)

The Costs of Ownership (00:03:23)

Political-Institutional Embeddedness Basic Argument (00:03:15)

Politics and Anti-corporate Forces (00:02:33)

Institutional and Organizational Infrastructures (Main Effect) (00:04:14)"

Institutional and Organizational Infrastructures (Moderating Effect) (00:01:58)

Data and Methods (00:01:18)

Measures (00:03:45)

Models (00:01:25)

Findings: Municipal Utilities (00:00:48)

Findings: Municipal Utilities (2) (00:00:54)

Findings: Municipal Utilities (3) (00:00:29)

Effects of Market and Hierarchy Failure (00:01:43)

Effects of Manufacturing Diversity on Municipal Public Ownership (00:02:35)

Findings: Electrical Cooperatives (00:00:53)

Findings: Electrical Cooperatives (2) (00:01:21)

Findings: Electrical Cooperatives (3) (00:00:24)

Effects of Market and Hierarchy Failure (00:02:18)

Effects of Manufacturing Diversity on the Number of Electrical Cooperatives (00:01:09)

Summary and Implications (00:04:15)

Correlated Systems of Alternative Organizational Forms (00:00:49)

Questions (00:16:18)

Presentation of Tile (00:00:39)

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