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From Categories to Categorization: Studies in Sociology, Organizations and Strategy at the Crossroads
Rodolphe Durand
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Hardback. This volume brings together some of the world's leading scholars of market categorization. Together, their contributions depict categorization as both a cognitive and a social process, tightly connected to actors involved, their specific acts, the entity being categorized, and the context and timing which inform these activities. Series: Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: KJMV7; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during the past 40 years. This volume contains ten essays on categorization authored by some of the world's leading scholars within sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research. It opens with revisiting the influential theory of the categorical imperative , and moves on to present various accounts of the social processes that form part of categorization and elaboration of ... Read more
Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during the past 40 years. This volume contains ten essays on categorization authored by some of the world's leading scholars within sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research. It opens with revisiting the influential theory of the categorical imperative , and moves on to present various accounts of the social processes that form part of categorization and elaboration of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787142398
SKU
V9781787142398
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About Rodolphe Durand
Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, Paris, France Nina Granqvist, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland Anna Tyllstroem, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Finland
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Scholars working in the sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research in North America, Europe, and South Korea provide 11 essays on categorization as a cognitive and social process, focusing on categories in the context of markets. They consider categorization as a tool for social evaluation; categorization as politics and strategy, in terms of how technology firms categorize themselves ... Read more