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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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Revisiting Burns And Stalker: Formal Structure And New Venture Performance In Emerging Economic Sectors
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of formal structure on the performance of new ventures in the emergent Internet sector during the years 1996-2001 and found that formal structure had a negative effect on new ventures' performance.
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Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster: lessons, trends and opportunities from the research literature
TL;DR: A detailed review of emergent behavior has been a significant topic within disaster studies as discussed by the authors, with a brief discussion of the process by which literature was selected, important trends and areas of debate are discussed These include validation of previous findings, an expansion of the discussion on emergent phenomena and a critique of the bureaucratic approach.
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The development and consequences of stereotype consciousness in middle childhood.
Clark McKown,Rhona S. Weinstein +1 more
TL;DR: Two studies including an ethnically diverse sample of 202 children ages 6 to 10 examined the development and consequences of children's awareness of others' stereotypes ("stereotype consciousness") and revealed that among children from stigmatized ethnic groups aware of broadly held stereotypes, diagnostic testing conditions led to stereotype threat effects.
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Organization Science, Managers, and Language Games
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between organization science and managerial practice is examined and a reinterpretation of the role played by organizational scientists in relation to practitioners is presented. But organizational scientists should be viewed not as engineers offering technical advice to managers, but as providers of conceptual and symbolic language for use in organizational discourse.
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Border Crossing: Bricolage and the Erosion of Categorical Boundaries in French Gastronomy
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the erosion of categorical boundaries in the case of opposing category pairs in French gastronomy during the period from 1970 to 1997, when classical and nouvelle cuisines were rival categories competing for the allegiance of chefs.