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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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Coopetitive supply chains: toward a social ties perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the impact of information systems on the spreading of collaborative logistical practices between rival companies in the same market and suggest widening the analysis by pointing out that the success of co-competitive strategies in supply chain networks also implies the weaving of powerful social ties between decision makers.
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How does policy learning occur? The case of Belgian mental health care reforms*
TL;DR: In this article, the empirical case of Belgian mental health reforms is used to show that policy learning can be used to support policy change in the context of mental health reform, and whether and how it impacts on policy change.
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From Resource to Human Being
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual change from resource to human being, which they define as "persons management" and examine how persons can be managed, remembering that persons manage persons.
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Six Sigma model of transfer of development capability
TL;DR: The conditions in which the development of the improvement capacity is sustainable are determined to determine, and a model of the Six Sigma process is formulated that refers to the features of the process of development and three principles for sustainable development of improvement capacity.
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Using the Web in the democratic process. The Web-orchestrated ‘Stop the Overlay’ cyber-campaign
William H. Dutton,Wan-Ying Lin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an ecology of games framework is employed to discuss the interplay among the separate but interdependent decisions and games that shaped the Stop the Overlay campaign in the 1996 US presidential election.