Much of the social science literature on institutions resembles a play that begins with the second act, taking both plot and narrative as an accomplished fact. very little research asks …
Most research on the emergence of high-tech clusters samples on successful cases, and works backwards to trace a narrative, often highlighting the role of specific individuals or …
AH Van de Ven, TJ Hargrave - Handbook of organizational …, 2004 - books.google.com
What explains the dramatic technical and social changes observed in much of the world during the past century? Responses to this kind of question vary, depending on the degree …
Recent critiques of social science have emphasized their ties to the concerns of academic disciplines usually labelled as humanities. Building on this literature, this paper argues that …
Any scientific discipline experiences a life cycle. As a specific discipline, the sociology of organizations may well have reached a stage of maturity and entered a declining return of …
R Whitley - Organization Studies, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Given the socially constructed nature of social phenomena, such as scientific knowledge and economic systems, and the considerable differences in how they are organized in …
R Whitley - Organization, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Organization studies became institutionalized as a distinct research field in North America in the 1960s as leading universities expanded to include the new behavioural and …
V Nee - Center for the study of Economy & Society. Working …, 2003 - Citeseer
The focus on institutions as a foundation concept in the social sciences has given rise to a variety of new institutionalist approaches. Not since the behavioral revolution of the 1950s …