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6 - Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualisms (2011)

from Part III - The Institutional Level of Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2021

Ronald L. Jepperson  and
John W. Meyer
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R. Jepperson  and
J. Meyer
Ronald L. Jepperson
Affiliation:
University of Tulsa
John W. Meyer
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

Works in detail through important empirical examples – including a canonical one from Max Weber – showing how supra-individual social causal processes often provide more sensible depictions of historical processes than do cumbersome ones imagining highly autonomous individual and organizational actors.

Keywords

levels of analysismultilevel analysismethodological individualismProtestant Ethic ThesisMax Webercollective levelinstitutional level
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Institutional Theory
The Cultural Construction of Organizations, States, and Identities
 , pp. 139 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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