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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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Language and thinking in organization studies: the visibility of French OS production in the Anglo-Saxon OS field
TL;DR: In this article, a sociological analysis based on Bourdieu field is proposed to understand the variation of reception the French OS production have had among the Anglo-Saxon field.
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The Human Flesh Search Engine in China : a case-oriented approach to understanding online collective action
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the political focus of a recent Internet phenomenon the Human Flesh Search Engine (HFSE), which was originally applied by the Chinese media to refer to the practice of online searching for people or human hunting.
The Origins of Common Action Capacities in EU Foreign Policy Observations on the recruitment of Member States' diplomats and officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS)
TL;DR: In this article, the recruitment practice of staff to the European External Action Service (EEAS) is analyzed to what extent and under what conditions the recruitment practices of staff are independent of government influence, and the data draws on interviews with officials from all 27 member-states as well as the EEAS charged with the selection of national public servants to the EAS.
Experiential learning by network actors in the design and art business
Annukka Jyrämä,Anne Äyväri +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of experiential and entrepreneurial learning in the art and design business is discussed, and the way the network's dominant logic affects the learning process and what is learned.
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Futures thinking by middle managers: a neglected necessity
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a group of technical managers trying to affect R&D policy and staffing in their company and the negative reaction of their superiors to this initiative is described.