This review aims to redress the growing gap between the receding discourse on
bureaucracy and bureaucracy's continuing presence as the predominant organizational …

Age as an individual characteristic is ubiquitous in social science research because it has
important associations with numerous outcomes of interest. Yet age is rarely treated as a …

This paper addresses the question why socio-technical transitions follow similar trajectories
in various parts of the world, even though the relevant material preconditions and …

A quest to explain institutional change that gave rise to a new economic order is complex
and challenging. This book reports the results of a six-year (2005–2011) study that aims to …

The vast majority of adults and teenagers living in an affluent society use social media on a
daily basis (see, eg, Duggan and Smith 2013 for data about the USA). Increasingly, even …

Under the influence of groundbreaking work by John Meyer and Brian Rowen, as well as
Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, over the last 30 years research in the new sociological …

Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to
processes of global change? This impressively comprehensive book examines the …

Das Buch untersucht die Einbeziehung von Personen in die globalisierten
Funktionssysteme der modernen Gesellschaft. Es geht erstens um» Leistungsrollen «, in …

In the last three decades, sustainability has become a guiding principle for states,
organizations, companies, and social movements as well as a general ideal for social …

Religion posits one characteristic as an absolute: faith. Compared to faith, all other social
distinctions and sources of conflict are insignificant. The New Testament says:'We are all …