Journal articleEthnic and Racial Studies · January 1, 2026
Over the course of a distinguished career, Orlando Patterson has become the most prominent social scientist examining enslavement on a global scale. In this review essay, I consider the distinctive advantages offered by Patterson’s historiographic approach ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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