Categorization systems are widely studied in psychology, sociology, and organization theory as information-structuringdevices which are critical to decision-making processes. In the present paper, we introduce a sound and complete epistemic logic of categories and agents’ categorical perception. The Kripke-style semantics of this logic is given in terms of data structures based on two domains: ...

REQUIRED) Cultural studies have played an important role in information systems (IS) research for over 25 years. Past IS studies have primarily focused on two levels of analysis: national culture and organizational culture. The gap in our knowledge of culture is in the area of occupational culture of IT professionals. IT professionals have their own distinct occupational culture with their own ...

This paper is a comprehensive presentation of a framework for the modeling, the simulation and the analysis of power relationships in social organizations, and more generally in systems of organized action. This framework relies on, and slightly extends, the Crozier and Freidber’s sociology of organized action (also called strategic analysis), which supports a methodology for understanding why,...

This is an essay in the sociology of knowledge. It aims to demonstrate, firstly, how development institutions construct rural society in terms of organizational imperatives, and secondly, how these ‘constructions’ come to be underpinned by social theory. The focus is on irrigation in south India and colonial and contemporary state policy initiatives to promote local institutions for the communi...

This paper presents an analysis of nonprofit organizations—the organizational infrastructure of civil society—in East Central Europe, from one important respect: by placing them in the context of the comparative historical sociology of the region’s widespread informality. This involves two steps: (1) summarizing an argument about the role of informality in East Central European capitalism today...

Entrepreneurs in high-technology industries often have prior experience at incumbent firms, but we know little about how knowledge obtained at the prior employer impacts entrepreneurial performance. Drawing on previous work from strategy, economics, and organizational sociology, I assess the impact of industry experience on entrepreneurial performance and innovation in medical device start-ups....

In this address, I revisit the micro–macro problem in criminology, arguing for an “analytical criminology” that takes an integrated approach to the micro– macro problem. I begin by contrasting an integrated methodological-individualist approach with traditional holist and individualist approaches. An integrated approach considers the concept of emergence and tackles the difficult problem of spe...

The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on the activities of student organizations, this be seen from various obstacles they face in carrying out organizational activities. This study intends to determine social capital sociology Education Student Association (Himadiksio)Kabinet Inspiratif pandemic. Determination informans using nonprobability sampling with purposive technique subject who are stude...

INTRODUCTION Following the landmark Leuven study in 2001, health care organizations implemented intensive insulin therapy (IIT) as the standard of care for critically ill patients. However, a recent meta-analysis showed no mortality benefit and an increased safety risk for patients treated with IIT. IIT affects labor and capital decisions related to nurses, physicians, pharmacists, managers, la...

Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms asks: “Why has nationalism proved to be such a potent, protean, and durable force in the modern age? Why nation-state established itself as central organizing mode of social political life last two hundred years? is still dominant form collective subjectivity?” (8) The author draws from several disciplines tackle these questions, including sociology, sci...