Nicole Woolsey Biggart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95483 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicole Woolsey Biggart |
| PRENOMES | Nicole Woolsey |
| SOBRENOME | Biggart |
| ASSINATURA | BIGGART N W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 317 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1983 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Developing Difference
This chapter examines how South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina attempted to develop automobile assembly and component manufacturing industries during the post–World War II period. It then compares the experiences and observes that each country gravitated over time toward a configuration of component manufacturing and automobile assembly made possible by indigenous institutional arrangements. Great inequalities in economic development have be…
Organizing belief
Organizing belief
A growing religious-environmental movement is working to reconcile environmental thought and practice with the mission and ministry of religious organizations. We examine two leading interfaith social change organizations and identify key strategies they routinely employ to create shared meaning and alignment between environmentalism and faith. They reframe stewardship in religious organizations by (1) highlighting and interpreting environmental …
Readings in Economic Sociology
Economic Sociology and the Social Problem of Energy Inefficiency
The rebirth of economic sociology in the last decades of the 20th century was largely about intellectual identity formation and developing theoretical foundations. The authors argue that economic sociology is poised to make a contribution to the understanding and solution of social problems. They use the example of energy inefficiency in the commercial buildings industry to suggest that economic sociology offers useful alternatives to current eco…
Economic Development
Economic development studies are concerned with how societies have, could, and should pursue improvement in the quality and quantity of life for their inhabitants. Since the decades following World War II when development studies began and were implemented as policies, there has been neither consensus on how to pursue the goal of economic and social improvement nor unqualified improvement in the quality of life for most of the world's population.…
Coming and Going in Economic Sociology
Developing Difference
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The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and …
Developing Difference
This chapter contains sections titled: Development Theories Development and Theories of Organization and Management Patterns of Institutional Variation Difference Illustrated
Readings in economic sociology
Interview
Social Organization and Economic Development
Проект осуществляется при поддержке
Collateralized Social Relations
Traditionally, economists have viewed social relations as "friction" or "impediments" to exchange and have excluded social relations from their analyses by assuming autonomous actors. Recently, however, a number of scholars-economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists-have begun to discuss the numerous ways in which social arrangements both prompt and channel economic activity. Rational choice theory, social capital and …
Broken Promises
Social Organisation and Economic Development
Проект осуществляется при поддержке Московской высшей школы социальных и экономических наук
A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies
Developing Difference
Theories of economic development as diverse as modernization, dependency, world-system, and market reform take a "critical factor" view. Proponents of each theory argue that countries fail to develop because of an obstacle to economic growth. We argue instead that neither a critical factor nor a single path leads to economic development; viable paths vary. Economic growth depends on linking a country's historically developed patterns of social or…
Enterprise and the State in Korea and Taiwan. Karl J. Fields
Engineering Culture
Managerial Dilemmas
Affaires de famille
Family Businesses Domestic sales organizations (DSOs), which are strongly developed in the United States, generally achieve a high level of economic efficiency, using methods that are often contrary to the traditional bureaucratic logic. This article analyses the organization of these very special businesses. Inspired by charismatic leaders, they recruit salespersons (often female "presenters") who are attracted by the idea of making money but al…
The Generous Corporation
The Organization of Business in Taiwan
Charismatic Capitalism
The Economic Sociology of Conventions
Economic sociology and economics have tried to explain the organization and stability of market capitalism mostly by arguing for the effects of social structure on the patterning of relations, or for the role of the price system in balancing the demands of individual economic actors. In North America, the primary alternative to structural and individualist theories of market order has been network theory, a meso-level attempt to bridge over- and …
Market, Culture, and Authority
Three frameworks purport to explain industrial arrangements and practices: a market approach that emphasizes economic characteristics, a cultural approach that sees organization as the expression of patterned values, and an authority approach that explains organization as a historically developed structure of domination. The efficacy of each approach is tested in explaining the organizational structures of three rapidly growing East Asian economi…
Developing Difference
Theories of economic development as diverse as modernization, dependency, world-system, and market reform take a "critical factor" view. Proponents of each theory argue that countries fail to develop because of an obstacle to economic growth. We argue instead that neither a critical factor nor a single path leads to economic development; viable paths vary. Economic growth depends on linking a country's historically developed patterns of social or…
Collateralized Social Relations
Traditionally, economists have viewed social relations as "friction" or "impediments" to exchange and have excluded social relations from their analyses by assuming autonomous actors. Recently, however, a number of scholars-economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists-have begun to discuss the numerous ways in which social arrangements both prompt and channel economic activity. Rational choice theory, social capital and …
Rationality, Meaning, and Self-Management
How-to-succeed books published in the United States since 1950 offer a glimpse into the subjective experiences of middle-class workers. This paper analyzes 30 bestselling success manuals to explore how rationalization has affected workers' attitudes towards themselves, their jobs, and their role in society. I divide the formulas these books offer for success into four categories, and relate each of these categories to the changing structure of mi…
Explaining Asian economic organization
Why People Obey
Recent sociological studies of power in organizations, although oriented toward practical ends, offer promise for a general sociological theory of power. Empirically grounded organizational studies examine social life as practiced by actors and preserve the tension between structure and action. Exchange theory and structural theories of power, in contrast, are abstract and theoretical; by asserting the primacy of structures (structural theories) …
Affaires de famille
Family Businesses Domestic sales organizations (DSOs), which are strongly developed in the United States, generally achieve a high level of economic efficiency, using methods that are often contrary to the traditional bureaucratic logic. This article analyses the organization of these very special businesses. Inspired by charismatic leaders, they recruit salespersons (often female "presenters") who are attracted by the idea of making money but al…
Economic Sociology and the Social Problem of Energy Inefficiency
The rebirth of economic sociology in the last decades of the 20th century was largely about intellectual identity formation and developing theoretical foundations. The authors argue that economic sociology is poised to make a contribution to the understanding and solution of social problems. They use the example of energy inefficiency in the commercial buildings industry to suggest that economic sociology offers useful alternatives to current eco…
Scandals in the White House
The Watergate scandal involving the president's personal staff brought forth numerous analyses and explanations. Most analyses located the cause of the scandal in the psychology of Richard Nixon, the breakdown of institutional arrangements, or a societal tolerance for corruption. The author, however, argues that Watergate was but one of many staff incidents that undermined presidential power and that the persistence of such phenomena requires a s…
Developing Difference
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The Organization of Business in Taiwan
Charismatic Capitalism
Tupperware Home Parties, Shaklee Corporation, Amway, Mary Kay Cosmetics—theirs is an approach to business that violates many of the basic tenets of modern American commerce. Yet these direct selling organizations, fashioned by charismatic leaders and built upon devoted armies of door-to-door representatives, have grown to constitute an $8.5 billion a year industry and provide a livelihood for more than 5 million workers, the vast majority of them…
A Sociological Analysis of the Presidential Staff
All chief political executives face the management problem of controlling their subordinates in order to direct the activity of the state. The author argues that the presidential staff emerged in this country as a strategy of control because of expanding state functions and an increasingly entrenched officialdom—the same conditons that gave rise to personal staffs in patrimonial administrations. The presidential staff's organization structure und…
The Post Office as a Business
The Academic Administrator Grid
The Post Office as a Business
Rationality, Meaning, and Self-Management
How-to-succeed books published in the United States since 1950 offer a glimpse into the subjective experiences of middle-class workers. This paper analyzes 30 bestselling success manuals to explore how rationalization has affected workers' attitudes towards themselves, their jobs, and their role in society. I divide the formulas these books offer for success into four categories, and relate each of these categories to the changing structure of mi…
A Sociological Analysis of the Presidential Staff
All chief political executives face the management problem of controlling their subordinates in order to direct the activity of the state. The author argues that the presidential staff emerged in this country as a strategy of control because of expanding state functions and an increasingly entrenched officialdom—the same conditons that gave rise to personal staffs in patrimonial administrations. The presidential staff's organization structure und…
Why People Obey
Recent sociological studies of power in organizations, although oriented toward practical ends, offer promise for a general sociological theory of power. Empirically grounded organizational studies examine social life as practiced by actors and preserve the tension between structure and action. Exchange theory and structural theories of power, in contrast, are abstract and theoretical; by asserting the primacy of structures (structural theories) …
Scandals in the White House
The Watergate scandal involving the president's personal staff brought forth numerous analyses and explanations. Most analyses located the cause of the scandal in the psychology of Richard Nixon, the breakdown of institutional arrangements, or a societal tolerance for corruption. The author, however, argues that Watergate was but one of many staff incidents that undermined presidential power and that the persistence of such phenomena requires a s…
Governor Reagan, Governor Brown
Writing for Social Scientists
Market, Culture, and Authority
Three frameworks purport to explain industrial arrangements and practices: a market approach that emphasizes economic characteristics, a cultural approach that sees organization as the expression of patterned values, and an authority approach that explains organization as a historically developed structure of domination. The efficacy of each approach is tested in explaining the organizational structures of three rapidly growing East Asian economi…
Inhuman Relations
Charismatic Capitalism
Tupperware Home Parties, Shaklee Corporation, Amway, Mary Kay Cosmetics—theirs is an approach to business that violates many of the basic tenets of modern American commerce. Yet these direct selling organizations, fashioned by charismatic leaders and built upon devoted armies of door-to-door representatives, have grown to constitute an $8.5 billion a year industry and provide a livelihood for more than 5 million workers, the vast majority of them…
The Predatory Society
The Generous Corporation
The Organization of Business in Taiwan
Charismatic Capitalism
The Soul of the Salesman
Explaining Asian economic organization
Affaires de famille
Family Businesses Domestic sales organizations (DSOs), which are strongly developed in the United States, generally achieve a high level of economic efficiency, using methods that are often contrary to the traditional bureaucratic logic. This article analyses the organization of these very special businesses. Inspired by charismatic leaders, they recruit salespersons (often female "presenters") who are attracted by the idea of making money but al…
Engineering Culture
Managerial Dilemmas
Enterprise and the State in Korea and Taiwan. Karl J. Fields
A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies
Developing Difference
Theories of economic development as diverse as modernization, dependency, world-system, and market reform take a "critical factor" view. Proponents of each theory argue that countries fail to develop because of an obstacle to economic growth. We argue instead that neither a critical factor nor a single path leads to economic development; viable paths vary. Economic growth depends on linking a country's historically developed patterns of social or…
Broken Promises
Social Organisation and Economic Development
Проект осуществляется при поддержке Московской высшей школы социальных и экономических наук
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