Agents, actors, actorhood : institutional perspectives on the nature of agency, action, and authority /: institutional perspectives on the nature of agency, action, and authority. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hokyu Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas, Gili S. Drori.
• Editors: Hwang, Hokyu; Colyvas, Jeannette A; Drori, Gili S
• Contents: Introduction Part I: Overview 1. Institutions and Actors in Institutional Theory; Hokyu Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas, and Gili S. Drori Part II: Construction of Actors 2. What Difference Does it Make? An Institutional Perspective on Actors and Types Thereof; Raimund Hasse 3. School Principals as Agents: Autonomy, Embeddedness, and Script; Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman 4. Me and My Avatar: Acquiring Actorial Identity; Anthony J. O'Tierney, Donncha Kavanagh, and Kevin Scally 5. Beyond Service Provision: Advocacy and the Construction of Nonprofits as Organizational Actors; Hokyu Hwang and David Suárez 6. Constructing the Consultant as a Legitimate Actor: The Role of Active Clients in Universities; Tim Sienderschnur and Georg Krücken 7. Constructing Organizations as Actors: Insights from Research Designs in the Literature On Institutional Logics; Guillermo Casasnovas and Marc Ventresca Part III: Work of Actors 8. Mentoring Institutional Change: Intergenerational Construction of Meso-Structure and the Emergence of New Logics in American Healthcare; Gina Dokko, Amit Nigam, and Daisy Chung 9. Machina ex Deus: From Distributed to Orchestrated Agency; Daniel Semper 10. Political and Institutional Influences on the Legal Codification of Nascent Markets: Incorporation of Islamic Banking and Organic Agriculture in Turkey, 1984-2015; Özgür Rahşan Çetrez 11. Institutional Work in High-Altitude Mountaineering: Rope-fixing, the 'Everest brawl', and Changes in Sherpa Actorhood; Marc Lenglet and Philippe Rozin 12. The Claim for Actorhood in Institutional Work; Merav Migdal-Picker and Tammar B. Zilber Part IV: Afterword 13. Reflections on Rationalization, Actors and Others; John W. Meyer.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.35; Organizational change; Globalization; Social action
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787560826
• Related ISBNs: 9781787560802
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