AGENTS, ACTORS, ACTORHOOD
RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS
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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF
ORGANIZATIONS VOLUME 58
AGENTS, ACTORS,
ACTORHOOD:
INSTITUTIONAL
PERSPECTIVES ON THE
NATURE OF AGENCY,
ACTION, AND AUTHORITY
EDITORS
HOKYU HWANG
UNSW Sydney, Australia
JEANNETTE A. COLYVAS
Northwestern University, USA
GILI S. DRORI
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
United Kingdom North America Japan
India Malaysia China
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CONTENTS
PART I
OVERVIEW
Hokyu Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas, and Gili S. Drori
PART II
CONSTRUCTION OF ACTORS
Raimund Hasse
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman
Anthony J. OTierney, Donncha Kavanagh and Kevin Scally
Hokyu Hwang and David Surez
Tim Seidenschnur and Georg Krcken
Guillermo Casasnovas and Marc Ventresca
PART III
WORK OF ACTORS
Gina Dokko, Amit Nigam, and Daisy Chung
Daniel Semper
zgr Rahan etrez
Marc Lenglet and Philippe Rozin
Merav Migdal-Picker and Tammar B. Zilber
PART IV
AFTERWORD
John W. Meyer
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Guillermo Casasnovas | ESADE Business School, Spain |
zgr Rahan etrez | Sabanci University, Turkey |
Daisy Chung | Cass Business School, UK |
Jeannette A. Colyvas | Northwestern University, USA |
Gina Dokko | University of California, USA |
Gili S. Drori | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Raimund Hasse | University of Lucerne, Switzerland |
Hokyu Hwang | UNSW Sydney, Australia |
Donncha Kavanagh | University College Dublin, Ireland |
Georg Krcken | University of Kassel, Germany |
Marc Lenglet | NEOMA Business School, France |
John W. Meyer | Stanford University, USA |
Merav Migdal-Picker | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
Amit Nigam | Cass Business School, UK |
Anthony J. OTierney | University of Leicester, UK |
Philippe Rozin | IAE Lille, France |
Kevin Scally | University College Cork, Ireland |
Daniel Semper | WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria |
Tim Seidenschnur | University of Kassel, Germany |
David Surez | University of Washington, USA |
Marc Ventresca | University of Oxford, UK |
Tammar B. Zilber | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
LIST OF FIGURES
Chapter 1
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 11
LIST OF TABLES
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
CHAPTER 1
THE PROLIFERATION AND PROFUSION OF ACTORS IN INSTITUTIONAL THEORY