The Embedded Actor and the Invention of Natural Economic Law
Policy Change and Railroader Response in Early America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy J Dowd (0000-0002-6739-4433, Emory University), Frank Dobbins, Frank Dobbin (Princeton University) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 478-489 |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764297040004010 |
| OpenAlex | W3123202082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
Economic sociologists stress that economic actors are embedded in a sociohistorical context that shapes and constrains activity. Neoinstitutionalists build on this idea and argue that economic actors are embedded in two key ways. First, they are embedded in the rationalized worldview described by Weber in which every end has an optimal means. Second, economic actors are embedded in a local context in which they collectively search for optimal strategies. Whereas local contexts and strategies vary greatly, neoinstitutionalists find great regularity in the script by which economic actors converge in strategies. The present article expounds on this "double embeddedness" by way of a single historical case: the construction of strategy by early American railroaders
Computer security · Context (archaeology · Economic sociology · Economic system · Economics · Embeddedness · Key (lock · Natural (archaeology · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Management and Organizational Studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Explorations in economic sociology
Institutions and organizations
American Sociological Association
Forging Industrial Policy
Economy and Society
Economic Policy and Democratic Thought
Markets as Politics
Economic Action and Social Structure
The American System
Mirror Images
Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States
Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890
Public Policies toward Business
Regulation, Property Rights, and Definition of “The Market”
War and Peace
Corruption–or Confusion? Lobbying and Congressional Government in the Early Gilded Age
The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence
The Decline and Fall of the Conglomerate Firm in the 1980s
The Iron Cage Revisited
Organizational Growth of Small Firms
Equal Opportunity Law and the Construction of Internal Labor Markets
Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures
Market, Culture, and Authority
Institutionalized Organizations
The problem of control in the weak state
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2012 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |