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

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Publication date: 5 April 2019

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(2019), "Index", 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. 287-293. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20190000058019

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INDEX

Note: page numbers in italics and bold refer to figures and tables respectively & page numbers followed by ‘n’ refer to end notes.

academic career
, 25–26

academic discourse
, 28–30

acclimatising
, 237–238

Accountable Care Organizations
, 179

active clients
, 112–113

consultancy
, 117–119

embeddedness of
, 122–123

German universities
, 117–119, 122–123

institutional logics
, 117–119

and institutional logics
, 117–119

interpretative patterns
, 117–119

legitimacy
, 117–119

roles of
, 117

actorhood
, 136–138, 151, 153–154, 230–232, 234–244, 251–252., see also institutional work; sherpa actorhood

agency and structure
, 267–268

case study
, 254–258

complexity
, 265–267

direct
, 281

discursive space
, 262–2644

high-altitude mountaineering
, 242–244

institutional complexity
, 252–254

institutional work
, 258–261

negotiating
, 261–262

rationalization and
, 278–281

actorial identity
, 66–67

case study
, 77–82

games
, 67–71, 70

legal system
, 71, 71–76, 75

actors
, 3–5., see also institutional theory

analyses of
, 12

consultancy
, 114–115

contributions
, 11–17

institutional logics
, 137–138, 153–154

institutions and
, 4, 5, 8–12, 16

multiple
, 253

proliferation of
, 5–8, 6

and real world
, 8–11

rise of
, 5–6, 6

social construction
, 25–30

strategy
, 127–128

types
, 25, 33, 38

advocacy
, 88

collaboration and
, 92–93

marketization and
, 93–94

rationalization and
, 91–92

affective action
, 31

agency.
, see also embedded agency

coordinated
, 16

distributed
, 16

domains of
, 49–51, 50

fields of
, 63

forms of
, 187, 192, 193, 201, 202, 203–204

in institutional theory
, (see institutional theory)

orchestrated
, 16

scripted
, 58–59

sense of
, 49–54, 50, 52

and structure
, 267–268

agency-context orientation
, 54–55

albeit implicit
, 7

altercation
, 239–241

American healthcare
, 164–165

data analysis
, 168

data collection
, 167–168

evidence-based medicine
, 169–170, 170

intellectual schools
, 165–167, 181–182

meso-structures
, 170–174, 175, 176, 176–183

American healthcare system
, 15

American welfare system
, 88

Apple Inc. (case study)
, 77, 77–78

Artificial Persons
, 73

Assurance Fund
, 225

Austin, J. L.
, 68

Australian wine industry
, 15, 189, 192–194, 194, 197–201, 203–204., see also scientific winemaking

The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI)
, 193, 195, 198

Avatars
, 67–83, 70

Avney Rosha Institution
, 50

Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA)
, 217

Birth Certificate
, 72

Bitcoin ecosystem
, 14

Bitcoin Matrix (case study)
, 79–82, 80

bounded rationality
, 24

case study

actorhood
, 254–258

Apple Inc.
, 77, 77–78

Bitcoin Matrix
, 79–82, 80

German universities
, 115–117

Israel, education system
, 47

LGBT community
, 16–17, 254–258

Central Bank of Turkey
, 217

civic engagement
, 88

collaboration
, 33

and advocacy
, 92–93

organizational rationalization and
, 104

collectives
, 29

commercial expedition leaders
, 240

Company Registration Number
, 74

competitive markets
, 30

complexity

institutional work
, 254, 265, (see also institutional work)

rationalized society
, 282–283

compliant, embedded agency
, 57

consultancy
, 14, 112–113

active clients
, 117–119

actors
, 114–115

German universities
, 115–117

institutional logics
, 117–119

interviewed
, 119–120, 120

intra-organizational communities and logics
, 122–125

IT
, 125–127

legitimization
, 121–122

strategy
, 127–128

control variables
, 98–100

coordinated agency
, 16

creator, embedded agency
, 56

cross-sector collaboration
, 97–98, 98

cryptocurrency
, 81

data analysis

American healthcare
, 168

institutional logics
, 143–144

Israel education system
, 48

mountaineering
, 235–236

data collection

American healthcare
, 167–168

institutional logics
, 142–143

Israel education system
, 47–48

mountaineering
, 235–236

dependent variable
, 97

disciplines
, 5

discursive spaces
, 254

distributed agency
, 16, 192

diversity
, 11

domains of agency
, 49–51, 50

domains of embeddedness
, 52, 52–54

education policy
, 45

education system
, 44, 47, 48, 54

emancipation
, 231–234, 233

embedded agency
, 13, 44–45, 58–59

dimensions of
, 59

notion of
, 45–47

orientation
, 54–55, 55

school principals
, (see school principals)

typology
, 56–57, 58

embeddedness
, 24, 51–52, 64

emotional attachment
, 33

emotional competences
, 32–33

emotional maturity
, 33

emotions, expression of
, 33

empathy
, 33

empirical cases
, 25

environmental rationalization
, 276

European Union (EU) regulation
, 215

Everest brawl
, 16, 230–232, 235, 236, 242, 244

Everest community
, 238

evidence-based medicine
, 165, 167–172, 170, 174, 175, 176–178, 180–183

Fatwa
, 225, 227n3

Financial Accounting Standards Board
, 73

First-Order Avatars
, 74–75, 75

formal codification

alignment
, 218–220

challenges
, 222–223

differentiation
, 216–218, 221–222

legal formation
, 223–225

viable industry
, 220–221

formal organizations
, 104

forms of agency
, 187, 192, 193, 201, 202, 203–204

games
, 67–71, 70

genres of institutional logics
, 147–148, 148, 149

German universities
, 112–113

active clients
, 117–119, 122–123

case study
, 115–117

consultants as actors
, 114–115

intra-organizational communities
, 124–125

IT consulting
, 125–127

legitimization
, 121–122

logic of academia
, 121–122

method
, 119–121

strategy consulting
, 127–128

Gezi protests
, 225, 227n4

GLBT community
, 258

global associational revolution
, 91

globalization
, 5, 6

government support and funding
, 94

growth to limits
, 35

Health Affairs
, 178

helping professionals.
, see consultants

high-altitude mountaineering
, 230–231

acclimatising
, 237–238

actorhood
, 242–244

altercation
, 239–241

data collection and analysis
, 235–236

emancipation
, 231–234, 233

industry
, 234

ropes
, 238

Huizinga, J.
, 67–69

human rights
, 9

Icefall doctors
, 237

IN01 Application to register a company
, 74

individuals
, 31–33, 276–277

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs)
, 81

Institute of Medicine (IOM)
, 168

institutional co-appropriate work
, 16

institutional complexity
, 252–254, 260, 265–267

institutionalism
, 10

institutional logics
, 112, 113, 116, 117–119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129, 130, 136, 167–171, 177, 179, 253

active clients and
, 117–119

and actors
, 137–138, 153–154

data analysis
, 143–144

data collection
, 142–143

multilevel and intermediation
, 149–151

organizational analysis
, 138–141, 141

research
, 144–148, 145, 148, 149

sociology of organizational knowledge
, 141–142

institutional meso-structures
, 182–183

institutional research
, 35

institutional theory
, 4, 5, 8–13, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28, 38

arrangements
, 190–191

distributed agency
, 192

emergence
, 189–190

intention and intentionality
, 191

institutional work
, 230–231

actorhood
, 236–244, (see also actorhood)

data collection and analysis
, 235–236

emancipation
, 231–234, 233

high-altitude mountaineering industry
, 234

multiple categories
, 253

institutions and actors
, 4, 5, 8–12, 16

intellectual school

evidence-based medicine logic
, 177–181

as meso-structures
, 165–167, 181–182

nascent
, 171–174, 175, 176, 176–177

new intellectual school
, 177–180

intention
, 191, 204–205

intentionality
, 191, 204–205

intermediation
, 151

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
, 89, 95, 98, 104

international relations
, 34

intra-organizational communities

and logics
, 122–123

and responsibility
, 124–125

Islamic banking
, 16, 210, 213–215., see also formal codification

assurance of
, 217

and conventional banking
, 216

criticisms of
, 220–221

and organic agriculture
, 213–214, 216, 220

Islamic law
, 213–221, 223, 226, 226n1

Israel, education system (case)
, 47

Israeli Institute for School Leadership
, 59

IT consultants
, 125–127

journals
, 5

Justice and Development Party
, 224

juxtaposing types
, 57, 58

law
, 29

leadership
, 190

legal entity
, 66

legal formation
, 212, 223–225, 223–226

legal personhood
, 66, 67, 71–72, 81, 82

legal system
, 66, 71, 71–76, 75

legitimacy
, 112–115, 117

active clients
, 117–119

ascriptions of
, 125–128

IT consulting
, 125–127

strategy consulting
, 127–128

legitimate actors
, 112–114, 128–130

legitimization
, 121–122

LGBT community
, 251–252, 259, 260, 263, 264, 266

case study
, 16–17, 254–258

institutional complexity
, 252–254

liberalization policies
, 7

Limited Liability Company (LLC)
, 81

living being
, 73, 83

living people
, 67, 71, 72

Living Persons
, 74

logic of academia
, 121–122

logic transitions
, 15

longitudinal research
, 188–189, 205

Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
, 93

Luhmann, Niklas
, 27–28

machina ex deus
, 188, 192

machine politics
, 93

Maine Medical Journal
, 178

manipulating forms
, 260–261

marketization/markets
, 98

and advocacy
, 93–94

formation
, 211–213

legal formation
, 223–225

legal order
, 222–223

and professionalization
, 104

Matrix
, 68–76, 70, 78–82

Meads v. Meads
, 73

media
, 262–263

media coverage
, 28

media semantics
, 29

mentoring practices
, 165

data analysis
, 168

intellectual schools
, 167

meso-structures
, 170–174, 175, 176, 176–183

meso-structures
, 164–165, 170–174, 175, 176, 176–183

institutional
, 182–183

metaphors
, 49

methodological individualism
, 31

Ministry of Education (MOE)
, 51–53, 55, 57–59

model specification
, 97

modern individualism
, 9

Monopoly
, 68–73

mortality of organizations
, 37

mountaineering.
, see high-altitude mountaineering

multi-level analysis
, 149–151, 192

multiple actors
, 253

multiple institutional logics
, 253

nascent intellectual school
, 171–174, 175, 176, 176–177

nascent markets
, 210, 213

National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS)
, 95

National Geographic
, 241

National Insurance Number
, 74

natural, local, and/or traditional (NLT) labels
, 221, 222

Natural Person
, 71–75, 79–81, 83

NCHSR
, 183

negotiating actorhood
, 261–262

neo-institutional theory
, 44

neo-institutional tradition
, 188

Nepalese mountaineering industry.
, see high-altitude mountaineering

Nepali Tourism Ministry
, 241

new intellectual school
, 177–180

new profession
, 196–199

New Public Management (NPM)
, 112, 116

nonprofit advocacy organizations
, 88–91, 100, 101, 102

collaboration and advocacy
, 92–93

marketization and advocacy
, 93–94

rationalization and advocacy
, 91–92

online games
, 68

online system
, 71

ontology
, 137

orchestrated agency
, 16

organic agriculture
, 210, 213–215, 221, 226

and inflicted changes
, 222

Islamic banking and
, 213–214, 216, 220

treatment of
, 218, 225

organization
, 277

and individual agency
, 44

organizational actorhood
, 137, 138, 151, 153, 154

organizational analysis
, 138–141, 141

organizational form.
, see formal codification

organizational rationalization
, 97, 97, 102, 104

organization-as-actor
, 26

organizations
, 36–37

organizations-as-actors
, 30

organizations-as-institutions
, 30

orientation
, 54–55, 55

otherhood
, 280–281

outcomes of institutional logics
, 145–147

“paradox of embedded agency,”
, 10

partnerships
, 93

Players
, 69–71, 70

and Avatars
, 72–73

Political Islam
, 210, 224, 226n2

political process
, 93

potential roles
, 115

Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, and Democracy
, 139

pre-modern winemaking
, 195–196

professionalism
, 99

professionalization, marketization and
, 104

professional role identity
, 45–46, 49–59, 50, 52, 55, 58

profusion
, 8

proliferation
, 4–6, 8, 10, 11, 17

public charities
, 89–91

collaboration and advocacy
, 92–93

marketization and advocacy
, 93–94

rationalization and advocacy
, 91–92

purposeful action
, 31

qualitative methods
, 254

rationalization
, 25, 30, 31, 38, 275–278

and actorhood
, 278–281

and advocacy
, 91–92

environmental
, 276

of nonprofit sector
, 102

organizational
, 97, 97, 102, 104

research design
, 136–138, 141, 143–145, 147, 151, 153–155

Research on the Sociology of Organizations
, 142

rope-fixing
, 231, 237, 238, 243

Roseworthy College
, 195, 197, 198, 203

The Royal Adelaide Wine Show
, 198

Savings Deposits Insurance Fund (SDIF)
, 216, 217

scholars
, 4, 10

schooling
, 277

school principals
, 13, 44–45

data and methods
, 47–48

embedded agency
, 54–57, 55, 58

scripted agency
, 58–59

sense of agency
, 49–54, 50, 52

school principalship
, 13

science, expansion of
, 9

Scientific American
, 178

scientific winemaking
, 194–195, 195

consolidating
, 199–200

innovation
, 196–197

new profession
, 197–199

pre-modern
, 195–196

scripted agency
, 58–59

Second-Order Avatars
, 74–75, 75

Sempers process model
, 16

sense of agency
, 49–54, 50, 52

service provision
, 88, 90, 91, 94, 101, 102, 105

Sharia
, 214, 224, 226n1

sherpa actorhood
, 231, 234–236, 242–246., see also actorhood

sherpas, mountaineering
, 230–231

acclimatising
, 237–238

actorhood
, 242–244

altercation
, 239–241

data collection and analysis
, 235–236

emancipation
, 231–234, 233

industry
, 234

ropes
, 238

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act
, 83n2

sociability
, 67

social construction
, 25–30

social media
, 68

social movements
, 91, 102, 211

social network analysis
, 7

social sciences
, 4–6, 6, 25–28

societal/system level
, 9

sociology of organizational knowledge
, 141–142

South Col route
, 237

Special Finance Houses (SFHs)
, 214–215

states
, 33–35

states and organizational actors
, 36

strategic, embedded agency
, 56–57

strategy consulting process
, 124–128

taken-for-grantedness
, 24, 25

teamwork
, 33

traditional action
, 31

Turkey, organic agriculture
, 210, 213–215, 217, 219, 220, 222, 224–226

United Nations Conventions
, 66

universities.
, see German universities

University of VT
, 183

US economy
, 30

US legal Matrix
, 81

US nonprofit sector
, 88, 92

value-rational action
, 31

video games
, 68

Weberian bureaucracies
, 27

Web of Science database
, 142

welfare states
, 35

White, Harrison
, 28

Wine and Grape-Growers Association (WGGA)
, 194, 199

Winemakers Federation of Australia (WFA)
, 193, 194, 199

winemaking, scientific
, 194–195, 195., see also Australian wine industry

consolidating
, 199–200

innovation
, 196–197

new profession
, 197–199

pre-modern
, 195–196