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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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Sustaining Lean: Strategies for Dealing with Organizational Paradoxes
TL;DR: Smith and Lewis as mentioned in this paper proposed the ontology of organizational paradoxes as a new paradigm in management studies and discussed the paradoxical nature of lean and the relationship between paradoxes and lean.
The appropriation of emotion
TL;DR: This paper argued that the lure of EI has as much to do with emotional appropriation as appropriateness, and that the possibility of appropriation/incorporation for the purposes of interdisciplinary extension can be compared with the contradictory dynamic of containment and control that pervades the literature on emotion.
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User Adaptation and IS Success: An Empirical Investigation among French Workers
TL;DR: In this article, four generic adaptive strategies of CMUA are posited to moderate the influences of information and system quality on intention to use and user satisfaction, and a longitudinal quantitative research design is then presented.
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Yorùbá Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Ọbáfemi Awólowo and Corporate Agency
TL;DR: Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria as mentioned in this paper investigates the dynamics and challenges of ethnicity and elite politics in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, and examines the foundations of the legitimacy of the Yoruba political elite.