Articles

Economics has much to do with incentives--not least, incentives to work hard, to produce quality products, to study, to invest, and to save. Although Adam... 
Economics | Incentives in industry

All people derive particular identities from their roles in society, the groups they belong to, and their personal characteristics. Introduced almost thirty... 
Identity (Psychology) | Psychology | sociology | Stability | Characteristics | Groups | Interaction | Organizations | Roles | Change | Society | Identities

Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of authoritative accounts of... 
Organizational sociology | Organizational behavior

Political science | Periodicals

Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools - first-order logic and its... 
Organizational sociology | Business & Management | Methodology | Population Studies | Sociology | Nonmonotonic reasoning | Psychology | Categories (Philosophy)

Although modern location theory is now more than 90 years old, the focus of researchers in this area has been mainly problem oriented. However, a common... 
Industrial location | Business & Management | Regional economics | Regional Science | Economics/Management Science | Operations Research, Mathematical Programming | Operations Research/Decision Theory | Network analysis (Planning)

Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social... 
Social movements | Stability | Change | Politics & government

This book addresses a question central to organizational analysis: Given the well-established differences between rational choice and organizational theories,... 
Organizational sociology | Rational choice theory | Economic man | Business & Management

Organizational sociology

Public sector organizations are fundamentally different to their private sector counterparts. They are multi-functional, follow a political leadership, and the... 
Organizational sociology | Public administration | Business & Management | Public Management | Organizational Studies | Management and Accounting | Public Administration & Management | Business

Theories heralding the rise of network governance have dominated for a generation. Yet, empirical research suggests that claims for the transformative... 
Politics & government | Voluntarism | Political Science | Political science | Corporate governance

This book explores the theoretical issues, empirical evidence, and normative debates elicited by the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). The concept is a... 
Decentralization in government | Politics & government | comparative politics | European Union countries | European union | Cohesion | Higher education | Subnational authorities | Environment | Normative | Theoretical analysis | Multi-level governance | Civil society organizations | Empirical evidence

Industrial organization (Economic theory)

Work | Organization | Research | Methodology

Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and stimulating volume, first published in 1991,... 
Methodology | Sociology | Giddens, Anthony | Giddens, Anthony Bibliography | Social structure | Contemporary Social Theory | Social Theory | Sociology & Social Policy

Demonstrating why economic modelling is so important in understanding international business, this stimulating and highly original book sets out a new and... 
International business enterprises research | Management science | International Business | Business and Management | International business enterprises

Over the past decade, Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholars in education have produced a significant body of work theorizing the impact of race and racism in... 
Discrimination in education | Racism in education | Critical pedagogy | Education Studies | Sociology of Education | Multicultural Education | Education Policy & Politics | Racism in education - United States