Paul Tracey
Biographic Data
| ID | 277359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Tracey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Tracey |
| SIGNATURE | TRACEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5877-9817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The peacekeeper’s challenge
Institutional Work
In this chapter, we have two aims: to review the first decade of research on institutional work, and to explore how the institutional work perspective can have a greater impact on institutions “that matter”. We structure our review around the “what”, “who” and “how” of institutional work to highlight key developments and identify problematic gaps. We find that scholarship in this tradition has focused primarily on middle-range institutions with l…
Beyond Managerial Dilemmas
This chapter makes the case that institutional and paradox theorists should consider problems stretching beyond managerial concerns and corporate performance to focus attention on the paradoxes that characterize the most deep-rooted and contentious social issues facing societies and economies, suggesting a switch from organizational to institutional paradoxes. To illustrate, two vignettes are described—one focused on the legacy of the University …
Religion and Organization Theory
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
Despite its central importance in nearly all societies, religion has been largely neglected in the study of organizations and management. In this introduction to the volume on religion and organization theory, we argue that such neglect limits unnecessarily the relevance and scope of organization and management theory (OMT) and that there is therefore great value in connecting organizational research with a deeper appreciation and concern for rel…
Religion and Organization Theory
Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda
Religion and Organization
Given the profound role that religion continues to play in contemporary societies, it is surprising that management researchers have not explored the intersection between religion and organization in a more meaningful and determined way. This may be because religion is considered too far removed from the commercial organizations that form the empirical focus of much work in the discipline, or simply because it is deemed too sensitive. Whatever th…
Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms
The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by a new, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case s…
Social Entrepreneurship
Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities such as conventional entrepreneurship. However, as a…
Social Bricolage
Current theorizations of bricolage in entrepreneurship studies require refinement and development to be used as a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship. Our analysis traces bricolage's conceptual underpinnings from various disciplines, identifying its key constructs as making do, a refusal to be constrained by limitations, and improvisation. Although these characteristics appear to epitomize the process of creating social enterprises,…
Social Economy Involvement in Public Service Delivery
Di Domenico M., Tracey P. and Haugh H. Social economy involvement in public service delivery: community engagement and accountability, Regional Studies. This paper considers the policy changes that have led to the outsourcing of contracts for the delivery of public services in the UK, with a focus on the role of social economy organizations. Specifically, the paper critiques the arguments in favour of social economy involvement in public service …
Relationship building in small firms
This article investigates relationships between Owner Managers and First Line Managers (supervisors) in small firms. A model comprising four components - competency, role, style and vision - was developed to consider the operating reality of this dyad, and its robustness considered using an embedded case study design ( n= 15). The analysis relied upon ‘pattern matching’ in which a set of a priori propositions were examined, and (a) the predicted …
Globalization and Competitive Strategy in Europe's Vulnerable Regions
Clark G. L., Palaskas T., Tracey P. and Tsampra M. (2004) Globalization and competitive strategy in Europe's vulnerable regions: firm, industry and country effects in labour-intensive industries, Regional Studies38, 1077-1092. European integration has prompted great interest in the adjustment capacities of small and medium enterprises in regions characterized by high levels of unemployment and lower-than-average incomes. At issue, in these circum…
Market Revenue and the Scope and Scale of SME Networks in Europe's Vulnerable Regions
For some, networks have ontological status, being associated with the embeddedness of social life in general and the necessary embeddedness of firms in their industries and regions in particular. For others less certain about ontology, networks are vital ingredients in firm-specific competitive strategies and long-term growth prospects. In this paper we approach the issue with reference to firm-specific competitive strategies, reporting the resul…
Rethinking comparative studies
Broadly speaking, three rival approaches to comparative research can be identified. One suggests that the study of different countries and their regions is unproblematic, and is best exemplified by scholarship in mainstream (particularly neoclassical) economics. Stress is placed on an integrated theoretical perspective emphasizing apparent similarities while explaining differences by reference to the heritage of nations and places. By way of cont…
In Search of Technik
The underlying concerns of these five books are closer than their titles suggest. All are concerned, in their varied ways, with the problem that while virtually all human work is specialised in terms of process and output managerialists claim that management is a general capacity which can and should override specific knowledges and skills. Below we consider how thinking about engineering and management have developed in the English-speaking coun…
Globalization and Competitive Strategy in Europe's Vulnerable Regions
Clark G. L., Palaskas T., Tracey P. and Tsampra M. (2004) Globalization and competitive strategy in Europe's vulnerable regions: firm, industry and country effects in labour-intensive industries, Regional Studies38, 1077-1092. European integration has prompted great interest in the adjustment capacities of small and medium enterprises in regions characterized by high levels of unemployment and lower-than-average incomes. At issue, in these circum…
Social Economy Involvement in Public Service Delivery
Di Domenico M., Tracey P. and Haugh H. Social economy involvement in public service delivery: community engagement and accountability, Regional Studies. This paper considers the policy changes that have led to the outsourcing of contracts for the delivery of public services in the UK, with a focus on the role of social economy organizations. Specifically, the paper critiques the arguments in favour of social economy involvement in public service …
Relationship building in small firms
This article investigates relationships between Owner Managers and First Line Managers (supervisors) in small firms. A model comprising four components - competency, role, style and vision - was developed to consider the operating reality of this dyad, and its robustness considered using an embedded case study design ( n= 15). The analysis relied upon ‘pattern matching’ in which a set of a priori propositions were examined, and (a) the predicted …
Rethinking comparative studies
Broadly speaking, three rival approaches to comparative research can be identified. One suggests that the study of different countries and their regions is unproblematic, and is best exemplified by scholarship in mainstream (particularly neoclassical) economics. Stress is placed on an integrated theoretical perspective emphasizing apparent similarities while explaining differences by reference to the heritage of nations and places. By way of cont…
In Search of Technik
The underlying concerns of these five books are closer than their titles suggest. All are concerned, in their varied ways, with the problem that while virtually all human work is specialised in terms of process and output managerialists claim that management is a general capacity which can and should override specific knowledges and skills. Below we consider how thinking about engineering and management have developed in the English-speaking coun…
In Search of Technik
The underlying concerns of these five books are closer than their titles suggest. All are concerned, in their varied ways, with the problem that while virtually all human work is specialised in terms of process and output managerialists claim that management is a general capacity which can and should override specific knowledges and skills. Below we consider how thinking about engineering and management have developed in the English-speaking coun…
Rethinking comparative studies
Broadly speaking, three rival approaches to comparative research can be identified. One suggests that the study of different countries and their regions is unproblematic, and is best exemplified by scholarship in mainstream (particularly neoclassical) economics. Stress is placed on an integrated theoretical perspective emphasizing apparent similarities while explaining differences by reference to the heritage of nations and places. By way of cont…
Globalization and Competitive Strategy in Europe's Vulnerable Regions
Clark G. L., Palaskas T., Tracey P. and Tsampra M. (2004) Globalization and competitive strategy in Europe's vulnerable regions: firm, industry and country effects in labour-intensive industries, Regional Studies38, 1077-1092. European integration has prompted great interest in the adjustment capacities of small and medium enterprises in regions characterized by high levels of unemployment and lower-than-average incomes. At issue, in these circum…
Market Revenue and the Scope and Scale of SME Networks in Europe's Vulnerable Regions
For some, networks have ontological status, being associated with the embeddedness of social life in general and the necessary embeddedness of firms in their industries and regions in particular. For others less certain about ontology, networks are vital ingredients in firm-specific competitive strategies and long-term growth prospects. In this paper we approach the issue with reference to firm-specific competitive strategies, reporting the resul…
Relationship building in small firms
This article investigates relationships between Owner Managers and First Line Managers (supervisors) in small firms. A model comprising four components - competency, role, style and vision - was developed to consider the operating reality of this dyad, and its robustness considered using an embedded case study design ( n= 15). The analysis relied upon ‘pattern matching’ in which a set of a priori propositions were examined, and (a) the predicted …
Social Economy Involvement in Public Service Delivery
Di Domenico M., Tracey P. and Haugh H. Social economy involvement in public service delivery: community engagement and accountability, Regional Studies. This paper considers the policy changes that have led to the outsourcing of contracts for the delivery of public services in the UK, with a focus on the role of social economy organizations. Specifically, the paper critiques the arguments in favour of social economy involvement in public service …
Social Bricolage
Current theorizations of bricolage in entrepreneurship studies require refinement and development to be used as a theoretical framework for social entrepreneurship. Our analysis traces bricolage's conceptual underpinnings from various disciplines, identifying its key constructs as making do, a refusal to be constrained by limitations, and improvisation. Although these characteristics appear to epitomize the process of creating social enterprises,…
Bridging Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Organizational Forms
The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by a new, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case s…
Social Entrepreneurship
Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities such as conventional entrepreneurship. However, as a…
Religion and Organization
Given the profound role that religion continues to play in contemporary societies, it is surprising that management researchers have not explored the intersection between religion and organization in a more meaningful and determined way. This may be because religion is considered too far removed from the commercial organizations that form the empirical focus of much work in the discipline, or simply because it is deemed too sensitive. Whatever th…
Religion and Organization Theory
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
Taking religion seriously in the study of organizations
Despite its central importance in nearly all societies, religion has been largely neglected in the study of organizations and management. In this introduction to the volume on religion and organization theory, we argue that such neglect limits unnecessarily the relevance and scope of organization and management theory (OMT) and that there is therefore great value in connecting organizational research with a deeper appreciation and concern for rel…
Religion and Organization Theory
Despite the profound influence that religious organizations exert, religion occupies a curiously marginal place in organization theory. This volume aims to make available in one place existing knowledge on religion and organizations, encouraging more organization theorists to include religion as part of their research activities and agenda
Institutional Work
In this chapter, we have two aims: to review the first decade of research on institutional work, and to explore how the institutional work perspective can have a greater impact on institutions “that matter”. We structure our review around the “what”, “who” and “how” of institutional work to highlight key developments and identify problematic gaps. We find that scholarship in this tradition has focused primarily on middle-range institutions with l…
Beyond Managerial Dilemmas
This chapter makes the case that institutional and paradox theorists should consider problems stretching beyond managerial concerns and corporate performance to focus attention on the paradoxes that characterize the most deep-rooted and contentious social issues facing societies and economies, suggesting a switch from organizational to institutional paradoxes. To illustrate, two vignettes are described—one focused on the legacy of the University …
The peacekeeper’s challenge
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works)