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Durlauf, Steven N. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Economists have traditionally studied aggregate behavior as the outcome of individual decisions made interactively, while sociologists have focused on the role of social influences on individual behavior. Over the past decade, however, the barriers between the disciplines have broken down,...

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Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences

Beenstock, Michael - The MIT Press

proposed by social scientists from such disciplines as developmental psychology, sociology, and economics. Beenstock also …

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Silent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis

Beamish, Thomas D. - The MIT Press

In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, an oil spill persisted unattended for 38 years. Over the period 1990-1996, the national press devoted 504 stories to the Exxon Valdez accident and a mere nine to the Guadalupe spill—even though the...

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Comparative Political Economy

Kindleberger, Charles P. - The MIT Press

, especially financial history. They also contain dollops of sociology and political science. Kindleberger views himself as a … contains many of the jewels of Kindleberger's work. Most of the papers are strong on comparison (within Western Europe and …

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Control and Ideology in Organizations

Salaman, Graeme (contributor); Thompson, Kenneth (contributor) - The MIT Press

Organizations is recommended for graduate courses in the Sociology of Work and Organizations, and Complex Organizations, as well as …Designed for use by undergraduate and graduate students in sociology and MBA courses on organizational development …, these essays by prominent scholars provide a general overview of theory and research on organizations, from the classic work …

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Transforming Enterprise

Dutton, William H. (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and … information technology in creating and using knowledge—especially knowledge that leads to innovation; then, new organizational … structural changes in specific sectors, including the effect of information technology on the automotive industry, demand …

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Internet Architecture and Innovation

van Schewick, Barbara - The MIT Press

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the...

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Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age

Cohen, Daniel - The MIT Press

, information technology had created decentralized work structures that encouraged autonomy and personal initiative. But with this … labor created many jobs requiring mindless repetition rather than conscious involvement with work. In our own modern times …, a comparable revolution has been wrought by information technology. In Our Modern Times, Daniel Cohen traces the roots …

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The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy

Vogelsang, Ingo (contributor); … - The MIT Press

At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are...

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The Information Revolution and Developing Countries

III, Ernest J. Wilson - The MIT Press

acknowledging the structural, institutional, and cultural constraints that work against their realization. …

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