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Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority

ISBN: 978-1-78756-081-9, eISBN: 978-1-78756-080-2

ISSN: 0733-558X

Publication date: 5 April 2019

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(2019), "Prelims", Hwang, H., Colyvas, J.A. and Drori, G.S. (Ed.) Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 58), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-x. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000058001

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Research in the Sociology of Organizations Volume 58

Agents, Actors, Actorhood: Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority

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Hokyu Hwang

UNSW Sydney, Australia

Jeannette A. Colyvas

Northwestern University, USA

Gili S. Drori

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Contents

List of Contributors vii
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
Part I Overview
Chapter 1 The Proliferation and Profusion of Actors in Institutional Theory
Hokyu Hwang, Jeannette A. Colyvas, and Gili S. Drori		 3
Part II Construction of Actors
Chapter 2 What Difference Does it Make? An Institutional Perspective on Actors and Types Thereof
Raimund Hasse		 23
Chapter 3 School Principals as Agents: Autonomy, Embeddedness, and Script
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman		 43
Chapter 4 Me and My Avatar: Acquiring Actorial Identity
Anthony J. O’Tierney, Donncha Kavanagh and Kevin Scally		 65
Chapter 5 Beyond Service Provision: Advocacy and the Construction of Nonprofits as Organizational Actors
Hokyu Hwang and David Suárez		 87
Chapter 6 Constructing the Consultant as a Legitimate Actor: The Role of Active Clients in Universities
Tim Seidenschnur and Georg Krücken		 111
Chapter 7 Constructing Organizations as Actors: Insights from Changes in Research Designs in the Study of Institutional Logics
Guillermo Casasnovas and Marc Ventresca		 135
Part III Work of Actors
Chapter 8 Mentoring Institutional Change: Intergenerational Construction of Meso-structure and the Emergence of New Logics in American Healthcare
Gina Dokko, Amit Nigam, and Daisy Chung		 163
Chapter 9 Machina ex Deus? From Distributed to Orchestrated Agency
Daniel Semper		 187
Chapter 10 Political and Institutional Influences on the Legal Formation of Nascent Markets: Incorporation of Islamic Banking and Organic Agriculture within the Legal System in Turkey, 1984–2015
Özgür Rahşan Çetrez		 209
Chapter 11 Institutional Work in High-altitude Mountaineering: Rope-fixing, the ‘Everest Brawl’ and Changes in Sherpa Actorhood
Marc Lenglet and Philippe Rozin		 229
Chapter 12 The Claim for Actorhood in Institutional Work
Merav Migdal-Picker and Tammar B. Zilber		 251
Part IV Afterword
Chapter 13 Reflections on Rationalization, Actors, and Others
John W. Meyer		 275
Index 287

List of Contributors

Guillermo Casasnovas ESADE Business School, Spain
Özgür Rahşan Çetrez Sabanci University, Turkey
Daisy Chung Cass Business School, UK
Jeannette A. Colyvas Northwestern University, USA
Gina Dokko University of California, USA
Gili S. Drori The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Raimund Hasse University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Hokyu Hwang UNSW Sydney, Australia
Donncha Kavanagh University College Dublin, Ireland
Georg Krücken University of Kassel, Germany
Marc Lenglet NEOMA Business School, France
John W. Meyer Stanford University, USA
Merav Migdal-Picker The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Ravit Mizrahi-Shtelman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Amit Nigam Cass Business School, UK
Anthony J. O’Tierney University of Leicester, UK
Philippe Rozin IAE Lille, France
Kevin Scally University College Cork, Ireland
Daniel Semper WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Tim Seidenschnur University of Kassel, Germany
David Suárez University of Washington, USA
Marc Ventresca University of Oxford, UK
Tammar B. Zilber The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

List of Figures

Chapter 1 Fig. 1 The Rise of Actors in the Social Sciences. 6
Chapter 3 Fig. 1 Domains of Agency. 50
Fig. 2 Domains of Embeddedness. 52
Fig. 3 The Distribution of Agentic Orientation. 55
Fig. 4 Typology of Embedded Agency. 58
Fig. 3. B1. Fields of Agency by Principals. 63
Fig. 3. B2. Fields of Embeddedness by Principals. 64
Chapter 4 Fig. 1 Player, Matrix and Avatar. 70
Fig. 2 Part of Apple Inc.’s Group Structure, Depicted Using Our Analytical Frame. 77
Fig. 3 Avatars in the Bitcoin Matrix. 80
Chapter 6 Fig. 1 The Nature of Consulting Projects and the Position of Actors. 125
Chapter 7 Fig. 1 Citations per Year to Five Key Papers on Institutional Logics, 1991–2015. 141
Chapter 8 Fig. 1 Institutional Change through Meso-structure. 171
Fig. 2 The Prolific Mentoring of Key Figures in Intellectual School of Evidence-based Medicine. 176
Chapter 9 Fig. 1 Key Events in the Professionalization of Winemaking in Australia. 195
Fig. 2 A Grounded Model of the Phases of Agency. 201
Chapter 11 Fig. 1 A case of ‘Institutional Co-appropriation Work’. 233

List of Tables

Chapter 3 Table 1 Appendix 1: The Distribution of Sample Characteristics. 63
Chapter 4 Table 1 Analytical Framework. 71
Table 2 Examples of First- and Second-Order Avatars in the Legal Matrix. 75
Chapter 5 Table 1 Descriptive Statistics (N = 188). 95
Table 2 Correlation among Variables (N = 188). 96
Table 3 Factor Solution for Organizational Rationalization. 97
Table 4 Factor Solution for Cross-sector Collaboration Index. 98
Table 5 Factors Associated with Nonprofit Advocacy (N = 188). 100
Chapter 6 Table 1 List of Interviewed Clients. 119
Table 2 List of Interviewed Consultants. 120
Chapter 7 Table 1 Distribution of Papers by Level of Analysis, 1991–2015. 145
Table 2 Distribution of Papers by Outcomes of Logics Struggles, 1995–2015. 146
Table 3 Level of Analysis by Logics Outcome, 1991–2015. 148
Table 4 Summary of Available Research Genres in Corpus of Institutional Logics Program. 149
Chapter 8 Table 1 Changing Profession-level Logics in American Medicine. 170
Table 2 Key Individuals Who Advanced Evidence-based Medicine. 175
Chapter 9 Table 1 Data and Sources. 194
Table 2 Actors, Roles, and Characteristics of Each Phase. 202

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