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Social Theory and Social Structure
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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social relation.read more
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Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the structure and operation of entrepreneurial organizations in the most speculative segments of three cultural industries: book publishing, phonograph records, and motion pictures, and propose three adaptive "coping" strategies: the deployment of "contact" men to organizational boundaries; overproduction and differential promotion of new items; and the cooptation of mass-media gatekeepers.
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Expanding understanding of service exchange and value co-creation: a social construction approach
TL;DR: In this article, a new framework for understanding how the concepts of service exchange and value co-creation are affected by recognizing that they are embedded in social systems is presented, and the authors argue that value should be understood as value-in-social context and that value is a social construction.
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A review of the theories of corporate social responsibility: Its evolutionary path and the road ahead
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the conceptual evolutionary path of theories on corporate social responsibility and reflect on the implications of the development of these theories, and suggest that future research needs to refocus on basic research in order to develop conceptual tools and theoretical mechanisms that explain changing organizational behavior from a broader societal perspective.
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Stress, Health, and the Life Course: Some Conceptual Perspectives.
TL;DR: It is suggested that this process can be observed in instances of trauma, in early out-of-sequence transitions, and in the case of undesired changes that disrupt behaviors and relationships in established roles, which must recognize their structural underpinnings.