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The Sense of Dissonance
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The article was published on 2011-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 414 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive dissonance.read more
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Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited
TL;DR: A novel approach to addressing the world’s grand challenges based on the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism and the sociological concept of robust action is theorized, and three robust strategies that organizations can employ in tackling issues such as climate change and poverty alleviation are identified.
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Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature”1
TL;DR: The authors used the economic value of nature as a paradigmatic case, and oil spills litigations in France and the United States as real world empirical illustrations, and suggested that a full-blown sociology of economic valuation must solve three problems: the why, the how, and the then what.
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How I Became a Relational Economic Sociologist and What Does That Mean
TL;DR: The authors proposed the concept of relational work to explain economic activity, arguing that people engage in the process of differentiating meaningful social relations, marking a boundary, marking the boundary by means of names and practices, establishing a set of distinctive understandings that operate within that boundary, designate certain sorts of economic transactions as appropriate for the relation, bar other transactions as inappropriate, and adopt certain media for reckoning and facilitating economic transactions within the relation.
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Values Work: A Process Study of the Emergence and Performance of Organizational Values Practices
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence and performance of what they call values practices are studied. But they do not consider the processes whereby values come to be practiced in organizations, and do not discuss the opportunities and challenges that values work implies for future organizational scholarship.
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Metatheoretical Perspectives on Sustainability Journeys: Evolutionary, Relational and Durational
Raghu Garud,Joel Gehman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, evolutionary, relational and durational perspectives on sustainability journeys are examined, focusing on shifts in selection environments, reconfigurations of emergent networks, and intertemporal comparisons and contrasts.
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