This paper focuses on the relationship between information systems (IS) and organizational processes from the perspective of the rationality of actors and their actions. The terms rational and rationality that are used in theoretical writings and in everyday life denote a multiplicity of meanings. The idea of reason has been connected with the disposition of actors to give rational grounds for ...

In this article, I extend recent macro-comparative empirical research on the developmental implications of global production networks. I draw from theories of commodity/value chains, global production networks and economic sociology to identify three contending theoretical perspectives for exactly how the developmental returns to network participants should be distributed—cooperation, exploitat...

1 School of Sociology and the Applied Network Research Laboratory, National Research University­Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation {blind,gnmkrtchyan}@hse.ru 2 Department of Sociology and Criminology, Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, United State [email protected] Abstract. Despite widespread scholarly attention on social movement media coverage, the full ran...

The recent development of child guidance clinics and behavior research centers presents students of human nature and social relations with new opportunities and new problems. The history of science seems to demonstrate that whenever a body of theoretical knowledge becomes oriented and useful with reference to a concrete human problem a period of rapid development ensues. The evidence for such a...

The research presented in this paper focuses on four different periods of implementation choices in the history of an italian public sector organization as ERP software support shifts from being provided in-house to a market-based supply. The case illustrates a deeply contextual reflexivity between the varied compositions of supply and use space and the social learning leading to the technical ...

This article draws a decade of experience editing and publishing TheSocietyPages.org, four more years Contexts magazine. Both projects work to bring sociological research insight broader public audiences, visibility, impact. Here we build upon Herbert Gans' original call for sociology his emphasis on the translation dissemination research, insight, context social issues problems broad audiences...