Domination in Organizational Fields: It’s Just Not Cricket
Domination in Organizational Fields: It’s Just Not Cricket
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组织领域的统治:这不是板球运动
DOI:
10.1177/1350508409337582
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发表时间:
2009
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影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
A. Wright
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作者:
A. Wright
This article demonstrates how deep engagement with Bourdieu’s theory of the field enriches scholarly understanding of institutional processes. A historical narrative of institutional formation and change in firstclass County cricket in England as a field of restricted cultural production is presented. The narrative illustrates how focusing attention on the position of agents within the field, the relations of production within the field, and the social context, which includes social class, provides a path for analysis of institutional processes which is dynamic, multi-level and nuanced. Bourdieu’s conception of fields as a struggle for capital between agents strategizing to improve field position illuminates the importance of social class to institutional processes, an effect that has been under reported by the most popular approaches to institutionalization in the extant literature.