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| Agents, Actors, Actorhood : Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
ISBN: 9781787560826
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Emerald Publishing Limited
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science; Business/ Management;
National governments are increasingly sharing the stage with many other forms of empowered social actors and authoritative players. Worldwide, alongside governmental bureaucracies, we witness the proliferation of non-for-profit and voluntary associations, business organizations and corporations, civic action committees and political parties, as well as celebrities and cultural icons. Importantly, whether they are individual- and collective social actors, these various actors are bestowed with the legitimate authority to speak their mind, act on their agenda, and influence the course of social progress. How might we conceptualize the role of such empowered social actors?
This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.
Hokyu Hwang is Senior Lecturer in the UNSW BusinessSchool, University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his PhD in sociologyfrom Stanford University, USA. He iseditor of Globalization and Organization:World Society and Organizational Change. Jeannette A. Colyvas is Associate Professorof Learning Sciences, and Human Development and Social Policy, at NorthwesternUniversity, USA. She is also faculty (bycourtesy) of the Kellogg School of Management. She received her PhD from Stanford University,USA. Gili S. Drori is Professor of Sociology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has held positions as StanfordUniversity, University of California, Berkeley, the Technion and University ofBergamo, as well as guest appointments at University of Uppsala and LundUniversity.
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