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Studying differences between organizations : comparative approaches to organizational research /
This volume is motivated by key questions and challenges associated with reviving and developing a comparative perspective. One organizing theme of the volume is to present comparative analysis as a means to explain and describe organizational heterogeneity, at varying levels and contexts. While muc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley :
JAI Press,
©2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Research in the sociology of organizations ;
. 26. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Studying Differences between Organizations: Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Part I. Conceptualizing Comparative Organizational Analysis; Comparative organizational analysis: An introduction; Comparative organizational analysis and its demise; The value of a comparative approach; About this volume; Going forward; References; Chapter 1. Lost in space, out of time: Why and how we should study organizations comparatively; The original critique of McKelvey and Aldrich; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References.
- Chapter 2. Comparing organizations: Empirical and theoretical issuesChanges in the empirical world of organizations; Changes in theoretical lenses; Implications for comparative organization research; Note; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3. Organizational comparative analysis: Investigating similaritIES AND DIFFERENCES among organizations; The intellectual roots of comparative analysis; The organization as both a level of analysis and a collective social actor; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Part II. Applying Comparative Organizational Analysis.
- Chapter 4. Comparative organizational analysis across multiple levels: a set-theoretic approachMultilevel versus comparative research on organizations; Rethinking comparative multilevel research; Concluding thoughts and a look ahead; Note; References; Chapter 5. The comparative analysis of organizational forms: Considering field and ecological approaches; 1. Introduction: Comparison goes underground; 2. Fields and worlds as the basic unit of analysis; 3. Field theory versus ecological account of form-segregation; 4. Audiences and oppositional standards of evaluation.
- 5. Producers, appeal, and consumer dynamicsConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Negotiating actor-environment relations: A framework for comparative research; 1. Introduction; 2. The move toward the middle ground; 3. Negotiating context: A comparative framework to expand the middle ground; 4. Implications for comparative research; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7. Differentiating organizational boundaries; Introduction; Creating organizations; Differentiating organizations; Comparative methods; Findings; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgment; References.
- Chapter 8. Technology, structure, and heterogeneity among American antiwar organizationsIntroduction; Political environment and historical era as contingency factors; Organizations and the big time; Path dependency and selective technological change; The context: Movement organizations, structures, and technologies; The case of the antiwar movement; Data; Historical era and national environment; National environment, internal structure, and technical configuration; Adoption of new technology; Discussion; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgments; References.