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- Title
The Money Center Cannot Hold: Commercial Banks in the U.S. System of Corporate Governance.
- Authors
Davis, Gerald F.; Mizruchi, Mark S.
- Abstract
This paper examines how the place of banks in the inter- corporate network has changed as a result of their decreasing role as financial intermediaries in the U.S. economy. An analysis of comprehensive data on the boards of the fifty largest banks and their connections with the several hundred largest nonbank corporations from 1982 to 1994 shows that the centrality of banks has significantly declined as executives of major corporations, particularly those representing central firms, joined bank boards at a substantially lower rate. Declining centrality reflects a strategic choice on the part of the banks: as the returns available from lending to major corporations have declined, the largest banks have moved into other forms of business and reduced their recruiting of centrally located directors. We conclude with a discussion of the role of financial intermediation in shaping the social organization of the economy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CORPORATE governance; BANKING industry; INTERORGANIZATIONAL relations; INTERMEDIATION (Finance); FINANCIAL institution management; SOCIOECONOMICS; CORPORATE directors; INSTITUTIONAL theory (Sociology); BOARDS of directors
- Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999, Vol 44, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0001-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2666995