Corporate wrongdoing and the art of the accusation
In: Tracts for our times
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In: Observations
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 95, Heft 4, S. 1079-1081
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Administrative science quarterly: ASQ ; dedicated to advancing the understanding of administration through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 652-656
ISSN: 0001-8392
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 93, Heft 3, S. 761-763
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 334-349
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 147-157
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 52, Heft 11, S. 1531-1555
ISSN: 1552-3381
The authors coin the term double embeddedness to denote the two-sided nature of communities, markets, and organizations—where social, political, and economic actions are embedded in social structure and culture. Structural embeddedness and cultural embeddedness and their interactions are variable, dynamic, and complex. The authors develop a typology based on these two forms of embeddedness, illustrating four ideal-types with examples from the United States and Europe. Two paths of stability and change in the United States are analyzed. The first is the observed decline of social capital coupled with the observed stability of shared values. The second is the hypothesized geographical polarization of values and networks, such as red versus blue states. Applying Coleman's macro—micro—macro model, it is shown that these two paths are the first and second cycles of a two-cycle model of social change. Also analyzed are some of the social mechanisms (situational, action formation, and transformational) that underlie this two-cycle model.
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 52, Heft 11, S. 1531-1555
ISSN: 0002-7642
In: Ethnologie française: revue de la Société d'Ethnologie française, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 15-21
ISSN: 2101-0064
Résumé Le statut d'observateur participant dans un monde de l'art que l'on souhaite étudier constitue à la fois une aide et une limite pour le chercheur. Parce qu'il comprend ce dont parlent les observés quand ils évoquent leur travail, il peut découvrir des choses qu'un étranger mettrait des mois à apprendre. Dans notre travail de terrain sur les musiciens du jazz aux États-Unis, nous avons découvert des situations problématiques propres aux chercheurs qui sont membres d'un monde de l'art sur lequel ils mènent une enquête : l'exploration mutuelle, l'explicitation de savoirs implicites. Le chercheur peut poser les questions de telle sorte que les enquêtés comprennent facilement ce qu'il demande. Il peut ainsi identifier ce qui n'est guère compréhensible (et qui le deviendra, quand il approfondit les points cruciaux de son enquête). Enfin il participe lui-même aux activités qu'il désire observer et sur lesquelles il aimerait écrire.
In: Criminology: the official publication of the American Society of Criminology, Band 41, Heft 4, S. 1173-1206
ISSN: 1745-9125
Criminologists have studied the spread of fraudulent practices and techniques among perpetrators. This article attempts to contribute to the field by looking at the other side of diffusion, examining the spread of fraud among investors in a case of "intermediate fraud." Intermediate fraud occurs when fraudulent acts are committed in or by a legitimate business. Using comprehensive archival, interview, and survey data, we analyze a business that exhibited a two‐stage pattern of intermediate fraud: It was created and operated as a legitimate business in the first stage, and then economic crimes were increasingly committed in the second stage. We use diffusion theory to guide our analysis, investigating the ways in which five factors—product attributes, buyer attributes and behavior, seller attributes and behavior, structure of the social network, and method of propagation—influence the adoption and diffusion of investments in oil and gas wells among a population of investors. The case of intermediate fraud is interesting because the factors that contributed to the success of the business in its legitimate stage are the same factors that contributed to the success of the fraud in its illegitimate stage.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 97, Heft 2, S. 279-309
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 652
In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 318
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 92, Heft 4, S. 879-909
ISSN: 1537-5390