Professor Prechel's primary areas of research are economic, environmental, organizational, and political sociology. Prechel's research program focuses on corporate-state relations with particular focus on how the balance between state power and corporate power affects the policy formation process. Prechel also conducts research and publishes on corporate change, financialization, financial malfeasance, and income and wealth inequality. His current research examines how political-legal arrangements and organizational characteristics affect environmental pollution.