Author : Peter Groenewegen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1787144348
This volume explores recent advances in network research, strengthening theorizing on social structures and meaning in and between organizational networks. The volume will interest researchers seeking to explain organizational phenomena through the analysis of communications and information from archival/secondary electronic sources.
Author : W Richard Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317345916
This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. This book is a valuable tool for the reader, as we are all intertwined with organizations in one form or another. Numerous other disciplines besides sociology are addressed in this book, including economics, political science, strategy and management theory. Topic areas discussed in this book are the importance of organizations; defining organizations; organizations as rational, natural, and open systems; environments, strategies, and structures of organizations; and organizations and society. For those employed in fields where knowledge of organizational theory is necessary, including sociology, anthropology, cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, managers in corporations and international business, and business strategists.
Author : Markus A. Höllerer
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1787433323
This volume focuses on the relationship between different modes in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and/or challenge of social meanings and institutions. The contributions demonstrate the potential of multimodal approaches to advance the design of rigorous methods of analysis for the study of multimodal communicative practices.
Author : Martin Kilduff
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857025593
Drawing on the wealth of insights into organizational life accumulated over the past few decades, this collection takes stock of the foundations of research in this area, examines the status of the current work and identifies future directions for the field. Topics covered include theoretical and methodological foundations; social capital; strong ties, weak ties and structural holes; small worlds/network structures; centrality and power; social networks of entrepreneurship; identity, cognition and individual differences in social networks; and network dynamics.
Author : Joseph Lampel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 37,27 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1839093501
This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the Tensions and Paradoxes in Temporary Organizing. Temporary organizing is a widespread phenomenon that continues to grow in importance, and reflects the uncertainty resulting from competition in globalized markets.
Author : Christi Lockwood
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1802622071
With contributions from some of the field’s leading scholars, this volume aims to further expand the agenda and scope of cultural entrepreneurship research by broadening what culture encompasses and what entrepreneurship entails.
Author : Leopold Ringel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 180117105X
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. This volume explores the distinct allure of rankings in diverse empirical settings such as healthcare, the IT sector, the arts, professional sports, anti-slavery advocacy, the pharma industry, and educational governance.
Author : Martha S. Feldman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1787565858
Contains an Open Access chapter. This book explores central themes in the enactment and coordination of organizational routines, including replication and transfer, ecologies and interdependence, action and the generation of novelty and technology and sociomateriality.
Author : Michael Lounsbury
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800434189
The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars interested in the study of practice and institution.
Author : Christine M. Beckman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800439806
This volume highlights and builds on many of the complements and alternatives to rationality that March articulated: a technology of foolishness, garbage can models of decision making, a logic of appropriateness, organizational learning, and a variety of models of chance and luck.
