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Actors and Systems: The Politics of Collective Action.

Mayer N. Zald, +2 more
- 01 Sep 1982 - 
- Vol. 61, Iss: 1, pp 328
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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.

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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

David Touve
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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Experts’ contribution to strategy when strategy is absent. A case study of quality experts in hospitals

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how new categories of experts can contribute to strategy development in public organizations by analyzing the interaction between managers and experts using principal-agent theory, and propose a new category of experts for public organizations.
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The moral economy of contemporary working-class adolescence: managing symbolic capital in a French public 'Adolescent Centre'

TL;DR: It is hypothesize that the contemporary moral economy allows for social interactions that go beyond social control and institutional domination and is heuristic for fully comprehending the complexity of issues and their stakes.
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Historic preservation: A statutory vehicle for disparate agendas

TL;DR: In the absence of an issue monopoly, an absence that is not fully explored in the existing policy literature, the authors provides insights into the shifts in coalition stability and statutory outputs absent an issue monopolization.
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Political and apolitical action: toward a reconciliation of contradictory models of organizational behavior

TL;DR: In this paper, two models of organizational behavior are reviewed: the apolitical model describes a relatively stable and centralized monolith, while the political model describes an unstable federation of self-interested parties.