Agents, actors, actorhood : institutional perspectives on the nature of agency, action, and authority

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Hwang, Hokyu
• Colyvas, Jeannette A.
• Drori, Gili S.

Publisher

Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2019

Language

English

ISBN

9781787560802

Series

Research in the sociology of organizations Vol. 58

Subject(s)

• AUTHORITY--RESEARCH
• ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIOLOGY--RESEARCH

Notes

• Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019
• Includes index

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Abstract

National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic action committees and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons. Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role of such empowered social actors? This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 293 p.)

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Prelims
Part I Overview
Chapter 1 The Proliferation and Profusion of Actors in Institutional Theory
Part II Construction of Actors
Chapter 2 What Difference Does it Make? An Institutional Perspective on Actors and Types Thereof
Chapter 3 School Principals as Agents: Autonomy, Embeddedness, and Script
Chapter 4 Me and My Avatar: Acquiring Actorial Identity
Chapter 5 Beyond Service Provision: Advocacy and the Construction of Nonprofits as Organizational Actors
Chapter 6 Constructing the Consultant as a Legitimate Actor: The Role of Active Clients in Universities
Chapter 7 Constructing Organizations as Actors: Insights from Changes in Research Designs in the Study of Institutional Logics
Part III Work of Actors
Chapter 8 Mentoring Institutional Change: Intergenerational Construction of Meso-structure and the Emergence of New Logics in American Healthcare
Chapter 9 Machina ex Deus? From Distributed to Orchestrated Agency
Chapter 10 Political and Institutional Influences on the Legal Formation of Nascent Markets: Incorporation of Islamic Banking and Organic Agriculture within the Legal System in Turkey, 1984–2015
Chapter 11 Institutional Work in High-altitude Mountaineering: Rope-fixing, the ‘Everest Brawl’ and Changes in Sherpa Actorhood
Chapter 12 The Claim for Actorhood in Institutional Work
Part IV Afterword
Chapter 13 Reflections on Rationalization, Actors, and Others
Index

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00353/20	302.35 Age	Online !	Available