On the Ontology of Action: Actors are Not “Abstractions”
On the Ontology of Action: Actors are Not “Abstractions”
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Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management
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Understanding social agents is arguably one of the toughest problems in all the social sciences, and Hwang and Colyvas admirably focus their attention here. In their article "Ontology, Levels of Society, and Degrees of Generality: Theorizing Actors as Abstractions in Institutional Theory," they advance an approach to actors (agents) as "abstraction...
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On the Ontology of Action: Actors are Not “Abstractions”
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2502231181
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2502231181
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0363-7425
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1930-3807
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10.5465/amr.2020.0093
