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Actors and Systems: The Politics of Collective Action.
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This article is published in Social Forces.The article was published on 1982-09-01. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Collective action.read more
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Strategic Capacity and Organisational Capabilities: A Challenge for Universities
TL;DR: In this paper, an organisational sociology based approach supported by a comparative field research project identifies three types of social, cultural and cognitive processes that play a decisive role in building and implementing local capabilities required to mobilise a strategic capacity.
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Ghosts in the shell: An investigation of the relationship between automation and the nature of work
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question, "What are the consequences of automation for the nature of work?" and present three groups of competing hypotheses that have persisted in the management literature regarding the relationship between automation and work.
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The German corporation : an open or closed society? : an application of Popperian ideas to organizational analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed the Popper's paradigm of openness and closure in order to investigate organisational culture in German corporations with respect to three issues: (1) whether organizational culture tends to correspond to or contradict the pattern of peer-group, or concertive, control that has recently been identified in organisations; (2) to what extent organisational cultures in Germany match German national culture; and (3) how German corporations react to the dilemma of being constrained by the extremes of open and closure.
Organization: A Diagnosis Method
TL;DR: In this article, a method for organizational diagnosis is presented, which allows the diagnosis of any job position, of any organizational unit: a work team, a marketing department, a project group, etc., and of any type of organization which resembles a firm.
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A socio-political analysis of obstacles to inclusive regional development: The case of Marseille metropolitan area
TL;DR: In this article, the authors pointed out that territorial fragmentation and widening social inequalities between different towns are a real threat to the complete success of the Aix-Marseille Provence MA©tropole project.
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A tale of two statues in Astana: the fuzzy process of nationalistic city making
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that nationalistic city making is more of a resource for people involved in patron/client relationships and a contingent outcome, rather than a planned strategy, and that the political production of space is considered a fuzzy process, contingent on the agency of multiple subjects, and treated as an outcome of Foucauldian "micro-physics of power".
Inter-sectoral coordination in forest policy : a frame analysis of forest sectorization processes in Austria and the Netherlands
TL;DR: Inter-sectoral coordination has become a central issue in different forest policy arenas worldwide and is considered to be essential for solving a whole range of problems the forest sector is currently facing as discussed by the authors.
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The sociology of enterprise, accounting and budget rules: Implications for organizational theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take a broad approach to accounting rules, arguing that they are related to large variations in enterprise forms and in industry problems, and explore both external and internal aspects of accounting rules and budget systems.
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Coordinating community and public-institutional mental health services: some unintended consequences.
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TL;DR: Two types of community organizations working in mental health in the Canadian province of Québec are examined: alternative COs, which have their roots in community action and maintain few formal links with each other or with institutional resources; and transitional structures, which are developed with the cooperation of psychiatric professionals, are closely linked to hospitals and are often part of a tightly coordinated system of community services.
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Negotiating the European External Action Service (EEAS): Analyzing the External Effects of Internal (Dis)Agreement*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the presence/absence of co-ordination capacities developed within an institution may have an important bearing also on the relations between institutions (for example, in inter-institutional negotiations).