Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.

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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.

01 May 1986-Contemporary Sociology-Vol. 15, Iss: 3, pp 344

TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.

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Abstract: Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In "The Constitution of Society" he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens' concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. "The Constitution of Society" is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

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Power in Discourse: The Case of Arguments on a British Talk Radio Show

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Ian Hutchby¹•Institutions (1)

Brunel University London¹

01 Oct 1996

TL;DR: The authors argue that power is best seen as a shifting distribution of resources which enable some participants locally to achieve interactional effects not available to others, and they show how these resources are linked to the interactional and technological organization of participation in the setting.

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Abstract: This article presents an approach to exploring the ways in which power functions in institutional discourse. The principal aim of the article is to show how the play of power in discourse can be analysed from the fundamentally local, sequential perspective of conversation analysis. I argue that power is best seen as a shifting distribution of resources which enable some participants locally to achieve interactional effects not available to others. Using calls to a British talk radio show as a case study, I show how these resources are linked to the interactional and technological organization of participation in the setting.

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Process research in strategy formation : theory, methodology, and relevance

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Harry Sminia¹•Institutions (1)

University of Sheffield¹

01 Mar 2009-International Journal of Management Reviews

TL;DR: This paper develops a view of the strategy formation process, drawing on a review of contributions that are based on a process approach, and more specifically the work of Henry Mintzberg, Andrew Pettigrew and Andrew Van de Ven.

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Abstract: This paper develops a view of the strategy formation process, drawing on a review of contributions that are based on a process approach, and more specifically the work of Henry Mintzberg, Andrew Pettigrew and Andrew Van de Ven. This view is meant to provide a way to bridge the content–process gap in strategic management by addressing the aspects of process theory and process methodology. Structuration is found to provide a useful theoretical basis for strategy formation research. Process methodology is found to be about discovering valid generative mechanisms that explain regular patterns in event sequences. Strategy formation research can then be made relevant for management practice by providing insight with regard to generative mechanisms and associated process trajectories of continuity and change, to allow for judgements on the favourability of the course of the process as well as the necessity to intervene or to let the process run its course.

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...Structuration theory is very much associated with Giddens (1976, 1979, 1984), but variants exist under such labels as morphogenesis (Archer 1982), the theory of practice (Bourdieu 1977), the theory of structure (Sewell 1992) and the theory of social becoming (Sztompka 1991)....
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...Within this strand of strategy formation research, structuration-like theories of process (Bourdieu 1990; Giddens 1979, 1984; Sztompka 1991) are combined with activity theory (Leontiev 1978; Vygotsky 1978), but interpretative sociology such as ethnomethodology (Garfinkel 1967) and symbolic…...
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Toward a Geocentric Framework of Trust: An Application to Organizational Trust

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Peter Ping Li¹•Institutions (1)

California State University¹

01 Nov 2008-Management and Organization Review

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a geocentric framework of trust in general and of organizational trust in particular, which integrates and transcends the cultural values of the East and the West.

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Abstract: Integrating the typologies of trust dimensions and trust ideal-types with the new typologies of trust forms and trust bases, I propose a geocentric framework of trust in general and of organizational trust in particular. The typology of trust forms is built on the dimension of spatial strength to address the content of trust building from weak trust to strong trust and on the dimension of temporal stage to address the process of trust building from initial trust to mature trust. The typology of trust bases is built on the dimension of trust sources to address the bases of trust building from depersonalized sources to personalized sources and on the dimension of trust domains to address the bases of trust building from dyad domains to network domains. Together with its three pillars (trust-building mechanisms, leadership and trust-as-choice), the central theme of trust building connects all four trust typologies toward a geocentric framework that integrates and transcends the cultural values of the East and the West. This framework bears a special implication for theorizing about transaction cost and transaction value as a duality for interorganizational alliance.

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...This is similar to the pattern of punctuated equilibrium (Gersick, 1991) and also consistent with the theory of structuration (Giddens, 1984)....
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...The notion of interplay is consistent with the structuration perspective defined by the structure–agency duality (Giddens, 1984)....
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The Transformative Value of a Service Experience

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Christopher P. Blocker¹, Andrés Fernando González Barrios²•Institutions (2)

Colorado State University¹, University of Los Andes²

15 May 2015-Journal of Service Research

TL;DR: In this paper, the pursuit of upward social transformation through service design and practice demands rigorous thinking about what this kind of change looks like and how it comes about, and how to advance these two goal.

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Abstract: The pursuit of upward social transformation through service design and practice demands rigorous thinking about what this kind of change looks like and how it comes about. To advance these two goal...

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...For a full review, see proponents (Giddens 1984), critiques (Archer 1982), developments (Stones 2005), and elaborations in marketing (Edvardsson, Skålén, and Tronvoll 2012)....
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...Yet, individuals, conceived as human agents, reproduce social structures through their everyday actions and practices (Giddens 1984) and can alter those structures through their agency....
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...Social practices are shared mental and bodily routines, scripts, habits, and generally the ongoing series of ‘‘practical activities’’ (Giddens 1984), for example, cooking or industrial practices, that are performed by actors....
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...For an organizing framework, we draw on recent models (Chandler and Vargo 2011; Edvardsson, Skålén, and Tronvoll 2012; Grönroos and Voima 2013) and structuration theory (Giddens 1984) to derive a theoretical value configuration space (Figure 1)....
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Hostile takeover or joint venture: Connections between institutional theory and sport management research

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Marvin Washington¹, Karen D. W. Patterson²•Institutions (2)

University of Alberta¹, University of New Mexico²

01 Feb 2011-Sport Management Review

TL;DR: A review of the use of institutional theory in sport management can be found in this paper, where the authors argue that there is more to institutional theory than the concepts that are currently being used in the sport management literature.

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