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Organization Studies articles from January 1997
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Organization Studies archives from January 1997
In praise of duality and dualism: rethinking agency and structure in organizational analysis.(Special Issue on Action, Structure and Organizations)
January 1, 1997... Abstract
This paper develops a critique of a number of highly influential theoretical interventions in contemporary organizational analysis that have collapsed structure into agency. It suggests that these approaches, which draw, in...
Strategic choice in the analysis of action, structure, organizations and environment: retrospect and prospect.(Special Issue on Action, Structure and Organizations)
January 1, 1997... Abstract
This paper examines the place of the strategic choice perspective in the study of organizations and considers its contemporary contribution. The main features of the original analysis are summarized, followed by a review of the...
A positivist alternative to the structure-action approach.(Special Issue on Action, Structure and Organizations)
January 1, 1997... Introduction
There is considerable appeal in the theory in that there is wide choice exercised over organizational forms, and in that sense, a wide scope of human action. However, developments in research are forcing us to question this idea....
Institutionalization and structuration: studying the links between action and institution.(Special Issue on Action, Structure and Organizations)
January 1, 1997... Abstract
Institutional theory and structuration theory both contend that institutions and actions are inextricably linked and that institutionalization is best understood as a dynamic, ongoing process. Institutionalists, however, have...
Action, structure and chaos. (includes appendix)(Special Issue on Action, Structure and Organizations)
January 1, 1997... Abstract
In this article we conjecture that organizational actors, through their actions, create their own context. Once initiated, the context tends to develop a dynamic of its own, which escapes the control of the organizational actors....