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Stephenson, Karen Anne.

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Emerging corporate groups: A study of institutional processes in a technological setting.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Emerging corporate groups: A study of institutional processes in a technological setting./
Author:	Stephenson, Karen Anne.
Description:	318 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4175.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-12A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9113251

Emerging corporate groups: A study of institutional processes in a technological setting.
Stephenson, Karen Anne.

Emerging corporate groups: A study of institutional processes in a technological setting. - 318 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4175.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1990.

This thesis is a study of how people are mobilized around cultural innovation or paradigmatic anomaly in a contemporary business organization in the United States. It is based on approximately two years of participant-observational fieldwork.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Cultural.

Emerging corporate groups: A study of institutional processes in a technological setting.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1990.
520 $a This thesis is a study of how people are mobilized around cultural innovation or paradigmatic anomaly in a contemporary business organization in the United States. It is based on approximately two years of participant-observational fieldwork.
520 $a Through ethnographic description, I demonstrate how incipient groups occasionally emerge in an existing technological setting. I particularly focus on the institutional factors in the social organization of these groups.
520 $a I call these institutional factors "differential incorporation" as they materially bear upon group autonomy and are "differentially" invoked according to the specifics of situations. I call incipient corporate groups "virtual groups" as they are mobile strategic positions within an existing institutional structure. As such, these groups appear "virtually powerful". My argument merges structural and processual approaches in a way that has not been previously applied in the anthropological literature.
520 $a I also relate my findings to discussions regarding the role of institutions. I enlarge the scope of these discussions by demonstrating how institutions are weakened or empowered in their panoptic role. In the confrontation of anomaly, both the virtual group and the parent institution must mutually adjust to one another. In so doing, they are "caught" in a dialectical tension that allows both the virtual group and institution to operate in collusion with one another.
520 $a Through differential incorporation, I demonstrate that this collusion conforms to the logical structure of hierarchy. Hierarchy is constituted through the explicit relation of parts to each other and to the existing institutional milieu. Thus, virtual groups are produced synthetically from their parent institution. Previous models of institutional power and Hegelian schemes of contradiction do not give an accurate picture of logical hierarchy when viewed from this perspective.
520 $a Through case examples, I demonstrate the relational quality of institutional power. I argue that differential incorporation is part of a complex mechanism in a strategem of power relations. This mechanism is invoked when there is a recognition of paradigmatic anomaly or cultural innovation. This recognition is socially organized through the formation of virtual groups. By allowing virtual groups to form, institutions carry within the seeds of their destruction or the promise of perpetuity.
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