Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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...Drawing upon the work of social theorists such as Anthony Giddens (1984), William Sewell (1992), and other organizational scholars (Ranson, Hinings, and Greenwood 1980; Riley 1983; Willmott 1987; Orlikowski 1992; Feldman 1999), I argue that this social process has structural significance.1 The…...
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...Drawing upon the work of social theorists such as Anthony Giddens (1984), William Sewell (1992), and other organizational scholars (Ranson, Hinings, and Greenwood 1980; Riley 1983; Willmott 1987; Orlikowski 1992; Feldman 1999), I argue that this social process has structural significance.1 The structures, though, are not imposed through organizational charts, formal procedures, or written rules that staff passively enact....
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...Giddens, Anthony....
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...For the last twenty years, social theorists such as Giddens (1984), Sewell (1992), and others (Ritzer 1981; Archer 1988; Bourdieu 1990) have been wrestling with trying to understand how individuals can both constitute and be constituted by social structures....
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...The first are the schemes: the norms, collective beliefs, and shared knowledge that people develop when operating within a particular social context.7 The second are the resources: the concrete objects, authority, and tools valued within a particular social context (Giddens 1984; Sewell 1992)....
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...It highlights the duality of structure and action: A designer “shapes” the situation and the situation “talks back” by producing unintended changes, giving the situation a new meaning (Schön 1983: 79, 131)....
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...I have adopted a practice-theoretical stance (Bourdieu 1977, Giddens 1984) and focused on what people do and how their actions shape and are shaped by organizational, professional, and project involvement-based power relations....
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...So how are entrepreneurs learning to operate effectively without recourse to formalised methods of training? ( Giddens, 1984...
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