Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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.
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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TL;DR: Transition management as mentioned in this paper is a multilevel model of governance which shapes processes of co-evolution using visions, transition experiments and cycles of learning and adaptation, which helps societies to transform themselves in a gradual, reflexive way through guided processes of variation and selection, the outcomes of which are stepping stones for further change.
Abstract: Sustainable development requires changes in socio-technical systems and wider societal change – in beliefs, values and governance that co-evolve with technology changes. In this article we present a practical model for managing processes of co-evolution: transition management. Transition management is a multilevel model of governance which shapes processes of co-evolution using visions, transition experiments and cycles of learning and adaptation. Transition management helps societies to transform themselves in a gradual, reflexive way through guided processes of variation and selection, the outcomes of which are stepping stones for further change. It shows that societies can break free from existing practices and technologies, by engaging in co-evolutionary steering. This is illustrated by the Dutch waste management transition. Perhaps transition management constitutes the third way that policy scientists have been looking for all the time, combining the advantages of incrementalism (based on mutual adap...
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...; actor and structure (Giddens 1984); technology and society (Rip and Kemp 1998; van de Ven and Garud 1994; von Tunzelmann 2001); and ecology, economy and society (Norgaard 1984; Kemp and Soete 1992; Gowdy 1994; Kemp and Rotmans 2005)....
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TL;DR: The authors argue that the locus of new value and knowledge lies at the firm level, while knowledge and capabilities-based researchers argue that new value created, or, put differently, what is the location of knowledge, lie at the individual level.
Abstract: At what level is new value created, or, put differently, what is the locus of knowledge? While knowledge and capabilities-based researchers argue that the locus of new value and knowledge lies at the firm level, we challenge this conceptualization and theoretically build toward more individualist foundations. We explicate the underlying philosophical assumptions of extant knowledge and capabilities-based work and discuss attributional problems. Nested (individual-level, a priori) heterogeneity may provide a better explanation of collective heterogeneity.
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...Granstrand and Sjoelander (1990), for example, found that acquisitions failed to generate new value when key scientists left the organization....
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TL;DR: This paper reviewed the development of the family firm context and identified its dimensions and explored the nomological relationships of the construct based on a social capital theory perspective and offer a theory of familiness.
Abstract: In the search for ways in which the family firm context is unique to organizational science, the construct of “familiness” has been identified and defined as resources and capabilities that are unique to the family’s involvement and interactions in the business. While identification and isolation of a construct unique to family firms is both groundbreaking and important for family firm research, it is also important that the development of the construct continues to be examined from complementing theoretical viewpoints. As such, we set out to review the development of the familiness construct and identify its dimensions. We also explore the nomological relationships of the construct based on a social capital theory perspective and offer a theory of familiness.
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...Family is often considered the primary influence on shaping lifelong values, with each subsequent generation adopting a portion of the parental values (Giddens, 1984)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a previously undescribed action that occurs in talk-in-interaction, i.e., agreeing with another by repeating what they have said is shown to constitute the action of confirming an allusion-that is, confirming both its content and its prior inexplicit conveyance.
Abstract: As part of a larger effort to develop an empirically grounded theory of action, this article describes a previously undescribed action that occurs in talk-in-interaction. The practice of agreeing with another by repeating what they have said is shown to constitute the action of confirming an allusion-that is, confirming both its "content" and its prior inexplicit conveyance. The author reviews the past treatment of "action" in sociology and the key constraints on undertaking an empirically grounded account. The account of "confirming allusions" is offered to exemplify what this undertaking will involve: several instances of an unremarkable usage in conversation are displayed and used to formulate a puzzle, a database is developed for the exploration of the target usage, and a candidate solution to the puzzle is formulated, exemplified, and defended through a range of analytic techniques. The linkage between the practice and the action that it implements is analytically sketched by examining other uses of ...
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...This is not the sort of action that is part of the articulable vernacular culture (what Giddens [1984] terms "discursive culture"); there is no speech act term for it; it is not readily accessible to intuition, although without a native's cultural knowledge it might not be detectable in an examination of interactional materials....
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TL;DR: This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research, and categorizes studies along two dimensions.
Abstract: This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research. It categorizes studies along two dimensions. One dimension distinguishes studies of the determinants of mobile adoption from those that assess the impacts of mobile use, and from those focused on the interrelationships between mobile technologies and users. A secondary dimension identifies a subset of studies with a strong economic development perspective. The discussion considers the implications of the resulting review and typology for future research.
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...5 Orlikowski & Iacono distinguish ‘technology as structure’ ‐ studies drawing specifically on structuration ( Giddens, 1984; Orlikowski, 1992) or adaptive structuration theory (DeSanctis & Poole, 1994) as distinct subcategory within the ensemble conceptualization....
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