The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is
undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel …

The emergence of novelty, especially of new categories of people and organizations, is
undertheorized in the social sciences. Some social worlds are more hospitable to novel …

Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

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 …

Modern state building entails not just the expansion but the transformation of national
bureaucratic organizations. Whether in late-modern social revolutions, in the rationalization …

With a population and budget exceeding that of many nations, a central position in the
world's cultural and corporate networks, and enormous concentrations off wealth and …

The studies above present a rich set of arguments and observations on how ideas and
models about organizing evolve and travel in modern environments, and how, when, and …

This study shows how places, and by implication other societal units as well, achieve and
reproduce distinctiveness. It does this by specifying how actors in two California urban …

scope of research in American urban politics is no longer restricted to that of the classic duel
between bossism and reform, the theme which has dominated the literature on the subject …

On the assumptions that the terms for portraying identities change as the structure of a
society changes, and that one of the master trends in American society has been the growth …