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- Abdelnour, Samer, et al.
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Agency and Instituions in Organization Studies
- 2017
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Ingår i: Organization Studies. - London : Sage Publications. - 0170-8406 .- 1741-3044. ; 38:12, s. 1775-1792
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Agency and institutions are essential concepts within institutional theory. In this Perspectives issue, we draw on a select group of Organization Studies articles to provide an overview of the topic of agency and institutions. We first consider different ways of defining agency and institutions and examine their implications for institutional theory. We then analyse the relationship of actors and institutions through four lenses – the wilful actor, collective intentionality, patchwork institutions and modular individuals. Our analysis leads us to dissociate agency from individuals and view it as a capacity or quality that stems from resources, rights and obligations tied to the roles and social positions actors occupy. Roles and social positions are institutionally engineered. It is social actors qua occupants of roles and positions (not individuals) that enter the social ‘stage’ and exercise agency.
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- Peredo, Ana María, et al.
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We are boiling: Management scholars speaking out on COVID-19 and social justice
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Management Inquiry. - : SAGE Publications. - 1056-4926 .- 1552-6542.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- COVID-19 is the most immediate of several crises we face as human beings: crises that expose deeply-rooted matters of social injustice in our societies. Management scholars have not been encouraged to address the role that business, as we conduct it and consider it as scholars, has played in creating the crises and fostering the injustices our crises are laying bare. Contributors to this article draw attention to the way that the pandemic has highlighted long-standing examples of injustice, from inequality to racism, gender, and social discrimination through environmental injustice to migratory workers and modern slaves. They consider the fact that few management scholars have raised their voices in protest, at least partly because of the ideological underpinnings of the discipline, and the fact these need to be challenged.
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