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11 - Reflections on Part IV:

The Construction of Actors

from Part IV - Institutions of Modernity and Postmodernity: The Construction of Actors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
By
J. Meyer  and
R. Jepperson
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

Actors and social structures in retrospect. The remarkably unrealistic qualities still attributed to individuals, organizations, and states in much contemporary social science.

Keywords

actors and structuresactorhoodlogics of action
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 281 - 294
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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