Logics of organization theory [[electronic resource] ] : audiences, codes, and ecologies / / Michael T. Hannan, László Pólos, Glenn R. Carroll

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461389203321
• Autore: Hannan Michael T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-283-37992-9; 9786613379924; 1-4008-4301-4
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (381 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): PólosLászló; CarrollGlenn
• Disciplina: 302.3/501
• Soggetti: Organizational sociology - Methodology; Nonmonotonic reasoning; Categories (Philosophy); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-354) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Language Matters -- PART 1. AUDIENCES, PRODUCERS, AND CODES -- Chapter 2. Clusters and Labels -- Chapter 3. Types and Categories -- Chapter 4. Forms and Populations -- Chapter 5. Identity and Audience -- PART 2. NONMONOTONIC REASONING: AGE DEPENDENCE -- Chapter 6. A Nonmonotonic Logic -- Chapter 7. Integrating Theories of Age Dependence -- PART 3. ECOLOGICAL NICHES -- Chapter 8. Niches and Audiences -- Chapter 9. Niches and Competitors -- Chapter 10. Resource Partitioning -- PART 4. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -- Chapter 11. Cascading Change -- Chapter 12. Opacity and Asperity -- Chapter 13. Niche Expansion -- Chapter 14. Conclusions -- Appendix A. Glossary of Theoretical Terms -- Appendix B. Glossary of Symbols -- Appendix C. Some Elementary First-Order Logic -- Appendix D. Notation for Monotonic Functions -- Appendix E. The Modal Language of Codes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Building theories of organizations is challenging: theories are partial and "folk" categories are fuzzy. The commonly used tools--first-order ; logic and its foundational set theory--are ill-suited for handling these complications. Here, three leading authorities rethink organization theory. Logics of Organization Theory sets forth and applies a new language for theory building based on a nonmonotonic logic and fuzzy set theory. In doing so, not only does it mark a major advance in organizational theory, but it also draws lessons for theory building elsewhere in the social sciences. Organizational research typically analyzes organizations in categories such as "bank," "hospital," or "university." These categories have been treated as crisp analytical constructs designed by researchers. But sociologists increasingly view categories as constructed by audiences. This book builds on cognitive psychology and anthropology to develop an audience-based theory of organizational categories. It applies this framework and the new language of theory building to organizational ecology. It reconstructs and integrates four central theory fragments, and in so doing reveals unexpected connections and new insights.

The female baroque in early modern English literary culture : from Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn / / Gary Waller [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910494716603321
• Autore: Waller Gary F (Gary Fredric), <1945->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2020
• ISBN: 90-485-5111-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Gendering the late medieval and early modern world
• Disciplina: 820.9352042
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Women in literature; Baroque literature - History and criticism; Women and literature - England - History - 17th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2020).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- 1. The Labyrinthine Baroque -- 2. The Female Baroque -- 3. Catholic Female Baroque -- 4. Protestant Baroque -- 5. ; The Female Baroque in Court and Country -- 6. Lady Mary Wroth : The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- 7. From Baroque to Enlightenment: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn -- Postscript -- About the Author -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Female Baroque is a contribution to the revival since the 1980s of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva's study of Teresa of Avila, that 'the secrets of Baroque civilization are female'. The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics - narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the Female Baroque is developed in detail. Attention is then given particularly to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, the latter two whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.