Agents, Actors, Actorhood Institutional Perspectives on the Nature of Agency, Action, and Authority
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Hokyu Hwang is Senior Lecturer in the UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Australia. He received his PhD in sociology from Stanford University, USA. He is editor of Globalization and Organization: World Society and Organizational Change.Jeannette A. Colyvas is Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, and Human Development and Social Policy, at Northwestern University, USA. She is also faculty (by courtesy) of the Kellogg School of Management. She received her PhD from Stanford University, USA. Gili S. Drori is Professor of Sociology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She has held positions as Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, the Technion and University of Bergamo, as well as guest appointments at University of Uppsala and Lund University.Researchers from Europe, the US, Israel, and Australia present 13 essays that examine the emergence, construction, and transformation of actors and their agency, action, and authority in institutions in various contexts. The first section considers the meanings, construction, and emergence of actors in institutions, including different types of actors, school principals, the concept of actorial identity through the construction of legal persons as actors, nonprofits as organizational actors, the role of active clients in universities, and the institutional construction of organizations as actors. The second section discusses the work of actors in episodes of institutional change and stability, with discussion of the emergence of evidence-based medicine in American health care, the emergence of the profession of scientific winemaking in the Australian wine industry, the incorporation of Islamic banking and organic agriculture within the legal system in Turkey, changes in sherpa actorhood in mountaineering, and the struggle for legitimacy of the LGBT community in Israel.
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This compilation of research and commentary gathers a range of institutional perspectives investigating what the devolution of state power and the so-called democratization of social action means for the nature of authority and how the multiplicity and variety of social actors impacts societies worldwide, extending from focus on agents to actors to actorhood.