Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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...Giddens’ (1984) conception of the duality of structure and action is also apropos....
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...Network persistence through inertia is the extent to which network interactions are reproduced over time and across a number of actors who develop what Giddens (1984) refers to as “structural properties,” or institutionalized frameworks that are reproduced across time and space....
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...These microfoundational explanations can be respectively termed as agency (Sewell 1992, Emirbayer and Goodwin 1994, Emirbayer and Mische 1998), opportunity (Blau 1994, Giddens 1984, Granovetter 1973), inertia (Kim et al. 2006), and exogenous and random factors....
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...Inertia includes the pressures for persistence and change (Giddens 1984, Portes and Sensenbrenner 1993, Coleman 1988) and refers to the durability of social structures as well as the social processes by which the focal actor’s actions are influenced, directed, and constrained by norms and…...
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...The resulting interdependence between contextual structure and contingent action corresponds with those reflexive mechanisms at the heart of structuration theories, as developed by Giddens (1984) and Bourdieu (1977)....
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...More importantly, they also create a basis for mutual communication, collective learning, and joint problem-solving, without which a technical and social division of labor and economic interaction would not be possible (Giddens, 1984; Hodgson, 1988)....
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...As these reinforcing mechanisms can generate structurational processes (Giddens, 1984), actors have to be ever vigilant to change their strategies as these processes unfold, just as Microsoft did when it first publicly ignored Sun’s Java and then embraced it to ‘poison’ it....
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...We do not deny that there will be emergent situations that are both the outcomes and medium of actions (Giddens, 1984)....
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...There is continuing scholarly interest in the constitution of paths driven by structurational processes wherein structure is both medium and outcome of practices (Giddens, 1984)....
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...We do not deny the role of emergent outcomes (what the authors have called ‘contingency’) that then serve as medium for ongoing actions (Giddens, 1984)....
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