Journal ArticleSocial Forces · 2022
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Social demographers and historians have devoted extensive research to patterns of racial segregation that emerged under Jim Crow and during the post-Civil Rights era but have paid less attention to the role of slavery in shaping the residential distributio ...
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Book · 2020
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third editi ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2017
One of the principal communicative skills that professionals have at their disposal is their mode of argumentation, that is, their logic for presenting knowledge, value, and action claims considered independently of the content of those claims. Even a curs ...
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Book · 2014
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Analyzing trajectories among average Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America. ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · 2013
The literature on social capital and entrepreneurship often explores individual benefits of social capital, such as the role of personal networks in promoting self-employment. In this article, we instead examine social capital's public good aspects, arguin ...
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Book · 2010
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Recent surveys show that more than half of American entrepreneurs share ownership in their business startups rather than going it alone, and experts in international entrepreneurship have likewise noted the importance of groups in securing microcredit and ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
While early work on the topic of entrepreneurship tended to portray entrepreneurs as heroic individuals (e.g., see Raines & Leathers, 2000, on Schumpeter’s description), more recent perspectives have come to recognize that new business activity is often in ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in the Sociology of Work · 2009
Purpose - Drawing from social psychology and economics, I propose several mechanisms that may affect ownership stakes among entrepreneurs, including norms of distributive justice, negotiation constraints, and network constraints. The processes are explored ...
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Book · 2007
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This volume takes stock of entrepreneurship research within organizational sociology, critically examining the theoretical presuppositions of the field and situating extant research within the sociological canon. ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings · January 1, 2007
Drawing on archival materials from the Roman Republic and U.S. antebellum South, this paper questions narratives that place the origins of administrative theory in late 19th or early 20th century industrial society. Agrarian societies based on chattel slav ...
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ConferenceAcademy of Management 2007 Annual Meeting: Doing Well by Doing Good, AOM 2007 · 2007
Drawing on archival materials from the Roman Republic and U.S. antebellum South, this paper questions narratives that place the origins of administrative theory in late 19th or early 20th century industrial society. Agrarian societies based on chattel slav ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in the Sociology of Organizations · 2007
An extensive literature in organizational theory discusses how established organizations shape and maintain their boundaries but offers little guidance as to how organizational boundaries emerge in the first place. This paper examines boundary formation in ...
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Journal ArticleResearch in the Sociology of Work · 2005
This chapter combines insights from organizational theory and the entrepreneurship literature to inform a process-based conception of organizational founding. In contrast to previous discrete-event approaches, the conception argues that founding be viewed ...
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Chapter · 2004
The Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics provides an important forum for scholars to generate new theory, identify promising research directions, and present important insights to a very wide audience of scholars in entrepreneurship. ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Sociological Review · April 1, 2003
The mechanisms governing the composition of formal social groups (e.g., task groups, organizational founding teams) remain poorly understood, owing to (1) a lack of representative sampling from groups found in the general population, (2) a “success” bias a ...
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Book · 2000
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Few large institutions have changed as fully and dramatically as the U.S. healthcare system since World War II. Compared to the 1930s, healthcare now incorporates a variety of new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, financing mechanisms, and under ...
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Journal ArticleHealth Services Research · 1998
OBJECTIVE: To draw together insights from three perspectives (health economics, organizational ecology, and institutional theory) in order to clarify the factors that influence entries of providers into healthcare markets. A model centered on the concept o ...
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