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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Strategic Action Fields"”.
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Post-crisis investment in single-family homes in Fulton County, Georgia
… against Fligstein and McAdam's (2012) theory of strategic action fields, urban political economists' theories of capital circulation, and Cedric Robinson's (1983) elaboration of racial capitalism. Using empirical data from Fulton County, Georgia, I find that patterns of residential segregation …
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Managing value conflicts : an examination of values and value conflicts in third sector organisations in Scotland
… framework utilises theories of values, Strategic Action Fields and social identity processes to understand social behaviour within third sector organisations. Specific theories of organisational hybridity, institutional logics and street-level bureaucrats help to frame the specific …
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Exceptionally un-American? why co-operative enterprises struggle in the United States, but scale elsewhere
… questions, synthesizing institutionalism and strategic action fields as a theoretical frame. Large-scale cooperatives are confirmed as less common in the US than other high-income democracies. Accounting for known socioeconomic factors (industry mix, country size/remoteness, social …
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Collective Action in Transitioning States: A Study of Social Enterprise
… frame of Fligstein and McAdam’s (2011) Strategic Action Fields, a model of meso-level collective action, this thesis examines the evolving relationships of the social enterprises (‘Challengers’ who want to change the status quo), social enterprise support networks (‘Governance units’ who …