Blurred discourses
How Market Isomorphism Constrains and Enables Collective Action in Civil Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3145562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Massimiliano Monaci (0000-0001-5986-176X, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, corresponding author), Marco Caselli (0000-0001-8335-4928, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-69 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Networks (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2005.00107.x |
| OpenAlex | W2028988660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
Civil society - both national and transnational - is produced through the activities and discourses of a plurality of social actors, including political parties, NGOs and (new) social movements, media organizations, third sector organizations, market firms, and professional and trade associations. To understand the current dynamics of civil society, we need to combine the concept of the plurality with the investigation of a second phenomenon: namely, that in our globalized landscape master ideas and patterns of practices travel and materialize not only across national borders but also across different spheres of institutional life. In opposition to mainstream diffusionist explanations of the travel of ideas, we use Latour and Callon's translation model as a theoretical tool for reading an 'exemplary' case study taken from a broader Italian research programme. In particular, our aim is to provide some insights about how the current emphasis on economic performance and managerialization is translated into organizational processes of everyday activity regarding one of the most traditional collective actors of civil society, the third sector organization. The case considered here is a cooperative, whose origins are rooted in an encounter with Africa, and which is now engaged in a fair trade network. Specifically, we depict the complex system of meaning and practices that characterize this field when economic categories and priorities (for example rationalization, calculative action and efficiency) meet and blend with more conventional and expected logics of action (for example solidarity, emancipation and expressive behaviour) that are embedded within it
Civil society · Collective action · Economic sociology · Emancipation · Embeddedness · Institutional theory · Mainstream · Organizational field · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Management, Economics, and Public Policy
Institutions and organizations
Doing Critical Management Research
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Extending the use of soil survey information
Actor network theory and after
To Transfer is to Transform
Management Fads and Fashions
Struggles and Negotiations to Define What is Problematic and What is Not
Notes on the theory of the actor-network
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
The Market as an Object of Attachment
Introduction
The economy of qualities
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2014 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |