Showing papers by "Walter W. Powell published in 1995"

Cultivating an institutional ecology of organizations: comment on Hannan, Carroll, Dundon, and Torres

Abstract: Les AA. considerent que le concept de legitimation est une notion clef pour la sociologie. En revanche son caractere a la fois de processus et de resultat pose d'enormes problemes de mesure. Ils rejettent donc le modele de « densite-dependance ». Selon eux on ne peut se limiter a croire qu'une croissance des effectifs puisse par elle-meme etre le signe d'une legitimation d'une pratique, d'une strategie. Ils s'opposent donc a Hannan et alii en arguant que l'on peut, sur ce point, developper des modeles, fins et a portee generale et pourtant non fondes sur la densite

Careers in Print: Books, Journals, and Scholarly Reputations

Abstract: Academic reputation rests on publication. But unlike many fields, sociology recognizes both journal articles and books, thereby complicating the relation of publication to reputation. Drawing on the sociology of science and organization theory to analyze elite sociology journals and books nominated for a major prize, the authors show how genre structures scholarly fields and shapes the reception of texts. Method and evidence, not subject matter, distinguish articles from books. Private universities "prefer" books, while scholars trained at public universities are more likely to publish articles. Gender and rank are associated with choice of genre, while citation rates increase with authors' prior publication records. Books generate conversations across subfields and disciplines; articles serve as a currency of evaluation within sociology.