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The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
Instead of examining why organizations are dissimilar, this study explores why organizations tend to be increasingly and inevitably homogenous in their forms and practices. Orga...
An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear Parameters
Previous article Next article An Algorithm for Least-Squares Estimation of Nonlinear ParametersDonald W. MarquardtDonald W. Marquardthttps://doi.org/10.1137/0111030PDFPDF PLUSBi...
Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTPreparation of Graphitic OxideWilliam S. Hummers Jr. and Richard E. OffemanCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1958, 80, 6, 1339Publication ...
Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community
BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their stock of social capital, the very fabric of their connections with each other, has been accelerating down. Putnam describes the resultin...
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional ch...
Society and the Adolescent Self-Image
Over 5,000 high-school students of different social, religious, and national backgrounds were studied to show the effects of family experience, neighborhoods, minority groups, e...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruin...
Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
How behavior and institutions are affected by social relations is one of the classic questions of social theory. This paper concerns the extent to which economic action is embed...
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
Human beings can be proactive and engaged or, alternatively, passive and alienated, largely as a function of the social conditions in which they develop and function. Accordingl...