From nuts and bolts to toolkits: Theorizing with mechanisms

Journal of Management Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-123

  Weber, Klaus ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural toolkits; Pragmatism; Social mechanisms; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646499443     PISSN: 10564926     EISSN: 15526542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1056492605280237     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Barley, S. R., & Tolbert, P. S. (1997). Institutionalization and structuration: Studying the links between action and institution. Organization Studies, 18, 93-117.
2. Campbell, D. T. (1969). Ethnocentrism of disciplines and the fish-scale model of omniscience. In M. Sherif & C. W. Sherif (Eds.), Interdisciplinary relationships in the social sciences (pp. 328-348). Chicago: Aldine.
3. Czarniawska, B. (1998). A narrative approach to organizational studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
4. Dewey, J. (1958). Experience and nature. New York: Dover.
5. DiMaggio, P. J. (1997). Culture and cognition. Annual Review of Sociology, 23, 263-287.
6. Elster, J. (1989). Nuts and bolts for the social sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
7. Fairclough, N. (2003). Analyzing discourse: Textual analysis for social research. New York: Routledge.
8. Hedström, P., & Swedberg, R. (1998). Social mechanism: An introductory essay. In P. Hedstrom & R. Swedberg (Eds.), Social mechanisms: An analytical approach to social theory (pp. 1-31). New York: Cambridge University Press.
9. Hernes, G. (1998). Real virtuality. In P. Hedstrom & R. Swedberg (Eds.), Social mechanisms: An analytical approach to social theory (pp. 74-103). New York: Cambridge University Press.
10. Joas, H. (1993). Pragmatism and social theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. Levi-Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. Locke, E. A., & Latham, G. P. (1990). A theory of goal setting and task performance. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
13. Locke, E. A., & Latham, G. P. (2002). Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35- year odyssey. American Psychologist, 57, 705-717.
14. Luhmann, N. (1995). Social systems. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
15. Martin, J. L. (2003). What is field theory? American Journal of Sociology, 109, 1-49.
16. Merton, R. K. (1957). The role-set: Problems in sociological theory. British Journal of Sociology, 8, 106-120.
17. Pfeffer, J. (1993). Barriers to the advance of organizational science: Paradigm development as a dependent variable. Academy of Management Review, 18, 599-620.
18. Pfeffer, J. (1995). Mortality, reproducibility, and the persistence of styles of theory. Organization Science, 6, 681-686.
19. Seo, M.-G., & Creed, W. E. D. (2002). Institutional contradictions, praxis, and institutional change: A dialectic perspective. Academy of Management Review, 27, 222-247.
20. Snook, S. A. (2000). Friendly fire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
21. Stinchcombe, A. L. (1991). The conditions of fruitfulness of theorizing about mechanisms in social science. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 21, 367-388.
22. Swidler, A. (1986). Culture in action: Symbols and strategies. American Sociological Review, 51, 273-286.
23. Swidler, A. (2001). Talk of love: How culture matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
24. Van Maanen, J. (1995a). Fear and loathing in organization studies. Organization Science, 6, 687-692.
25. Van Maanen, J. (1995b). Style as theory. Organization Science, 6, 133-143.
26. Weick, K. E. (1989). Theory construction as disciplined imagination. Academy of Management Review, 14, 516-531.
27. Weick, K. E. (1995). What theory is not, theorizing is. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40, 385-390.
28. Weick, K. E. (1996). Drop your tools: An allegory for organizational studies. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 301-313.
29. Williamson, O. E. (1975). Markets and hierarchies: Analysis and antitrust implications. New York: Free Press.
30. Williamson, O. E. (1989). Transaction cost economics. In R. Schmalensee & R. D. Willig (Eds.), Handbook of industrial organization (pp. 135-179). New York: Elsevier.