Social Structure and Organizations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7079045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Joseph‐goteiner (0000-0002-7474-0162, University of California, Berkeley), Neil Fligstein (0000-0002-7049-6502, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoso026.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W3217012638 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Organizations populate modern society as the main vehicles for actors to attain their goals. They are, however, creatures of the society in which they exist. This entry explores how scholars have conceptualized the link between organizations and social structures. Beginning with Stinchcombe's seminal 1965 article, scholars have struggled with three questions: What social structures are organizations embedded in? Do those structures present hard or soft constraints on organizations' ability to survive? Can actors in organizations change the direction of their internal organization in such a way as to control their environment? Three main perspectives to these questions in organizational theory are considered: population ecology, institutional theory, and network analysis. A comparison of recent developments in these research programs suggests that while there remain differences, some common themes have emerged
Biology · Control (management · Creatures · Management · Natural (archaeology · Organization studies · Organizational ecology · Organizational structure · Organizational theory · Political science · Population · Public relations · Social organization · Social science · Sociology · Business Strategy and Innovation · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
Corporate profits and cooptation
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
Structural Holes
Organizations and Movements
Institutional Logics
Chapter 2 Resource dependence theory
Handbook of Organizations (RLE
A Theory of Fields
Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory
Contemporary organizational theory
Why the Microbrewery Movement? Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in the U.S. Brewing Industry
Where do organizational forms come from
Structural Inertia and Organizational Change
The Iron Cage Revisited
Network Analysis
Partiality of Memberships in Categories and Audiences
Network Dynamics and Field Evolution
Market Networks and Corporate Behavior
Where Do Markets Come From
Institutionalized Organizations
The Population Ecology of Organizations
Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come From
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1980 - 1980 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |