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A Critique of the Mainstream Management Control Theory and the Way Forward
SAGE Open, 2012 This article critiques the mainstream management control theory with a view to highlighting its gaps and to suggesting a direction for its future development. Management control theory has undergone lopsided development due to the dominance of accounting-
Chandana Rathnasiri Hewege
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Integrating Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Collective Efficacy [PDF]
, 2019 Collective efficacy is rooted in both psychology, and sociology. Discussions of the differences between the sociological and psychological conceptualization and operationalization of collective efficacy is limited.
Gearhart, Michael
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A Sociological Model of Agency and Parent-Child Negotiations of Sex
Socius, 2023 Agency theory explains many processes of interest to sociologists, such as overcoming conflicts of interest, information management, delegation of power and control, and the social dilemmas that arise when one acts on behalf of another.
Maria S. Grigoryeva
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Reconsidering feminisms and the work of Norbert Elias for understanding gender, sport and sport-related activities [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 North West Counties Physical Education Association and SAGE Publications.This paper reconsiders the relationships between feminist ...
Mansfield, L., Mansfield, L.
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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2023 The article proposes an analytical perspective on artificial intelligence (AI) that can be fruitful in the sociology of work. The practical logic of new forms of AI (connectionist AI) is described as an interplay of social and technical processes of ...
Michael Heinlein, Norbert Huchler
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, 2003 Sociology emerged in response to the problem of social order in modern society in the wake of the American and French Revolutions and the rise of industrialism and market capitalism.
Bannister, Robert C.
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L'eredità di Norbert Elias nella sociologia dello sport
Cambio, 2021 The paper aims to analyse Norbert Elias’ legacy in the sociology of sport, marked by the centrality of figurational theory in the tradition of this field of study.
Luca Bifulco
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An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field‐Level Analysis [PDF]
, 2007 Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often.
Barman, Emily
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Institutional Theory and Management Accounting Research [PDF]
MAB, 2012 This article discusses the use of institutional theory in management accounting research. Three different types of institutional theory are described and their use in studying management accounting change is explained: new institutional economics (NIE),
Robert W. Scapens
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Friend or Foe: A Review and Synthesis of Computational Models of the Identity Labeling Problem [PDF]
, 2021 We introduce the identity labeling problem - given an individual in a social situation, can we predict what identity(ies) they will be labeled with by someone else? This problem remains a theoretical gap and methodological challenge, evidenced by the fact that models of social-cognition often sidestep the issue by treating identities as already known ...
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