Opening Fields : A Methodological Contribution to the Identification of Heterogeneous Actors in Unbounded Relational Orders
| Autor: | Céline Robardet, Clement Levallois, Mohamed Benabdelkrim, Jean Savinien |
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| Přispěvatelé: | emlyon business school |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:Management. Industrial management
Strategy and Management 02 engineering and technology lcsh:Business Empirical research 020204 information systems 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Sociology Operationalization Online Social Networks Fields Flourishing Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences methodology Classification [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance General Business Management and Accounting Data science Curation Scholarship Identification (information) Content analysis lcsh:HD28-70 [SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration lcsh:HF5001-6182 050203 business & management Social structure |
| Zdroj: | M@n@gement M@n@gement, AIMS (Association internationale de management stratégique), 2020, 4-18 p M@n@gement, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2020) M@n@gement; Volume 23, Issue 1 (2020); 4-18 |
| ISSN: | 1286-4692 |
| Popis: | Institutional scholarship studies how individuals coexist and interact with social structures. Organizations and inter-organizational relations within industries are a central focus of these studies. Hence, empirical research has so far largely relied on the observation of individual actors identified by their organizational attributes, and organizations identified by their industry characteristics. The flourishing of new types of social structures has sent an invitation to observe a broader range of actors beyond organizationsstricto sensu, and to define the arena of interest beyond the boundaries of industry membership. However, in practice, these remain a favorite starting point of empirical investigations. In this article, we present a new method for the study of organizational fields that facilitates the identification of a large number and varied types of actors in a given field, provides a characterization of the relational structure of the field, and offers a content analysis on different sub-regions of the field. We test the method by replicating a previous study in the field of ‘social impact of nonprofits’, and show how it can contribute to operationalize mechanisms at play in the field. We conclude by noting that the principles of this method can extend beyond the dataset it is originally built on and facilitate a comparative approach to the study of fields. This contribution should enhance the value of the field as a theoretical construct by extending its operational reach. Manuscript accepted by Thomas Roulet |
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