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Work, Economy and Organizations

Selected Works

2001

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Corporate Practice Of Medicine: Competition And Innovation In Health Care (Book Review), Linda Treiber Jun 2001

The Corporate Practice Of Medicine: Competition And Innovation In Health Care (Book Review), Linda Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Review of the book "The Corporate Practice of Medicine: Competition and Innovation in Health Care," by James C. Robinson

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What Investing Women Want, Jane Bryant Quinn Jan 2001

What Investing Women Want, Jane Bryant Quinn

Brooke Harrington

No abstract provided.

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Untidy Gender: Domestic Service In Turkey, Gul Ozyegin Dec 2000

Untidy Gender: Domestic Service In Turkey, Gul Ozyegin

Gul Ozyegin

Untidy Gender takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of the domestic spheres of the urban middle-classes. Firmly grounded in data collected through a representative survey of 160 domestic workers, in-depth interviews, and participant observation in the kinship-based communities of domestic workers, this book forges a new understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class subordination. 

Ozyegin traces the lives of two kinds of workers; those from the squatter settlements who work in a number of locations, and those who live …

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Organizational Performance And Corporate Social Capital, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington Dec 2000

Organizational Performance And Corporate Social Capital, Elisabeth Brooke Harrington

Brooke Harrington

This study develops a model of the causal impact of social capital on organizational performance, with particular attention to specifying the contingencies that transform some kinds of network ties into social capital or social liability. The study unpacks the “black box” linking social structure and firms’ goal attainment by turning to mid-level theories of group and group processes. Hypotheses were tested using data from a national survey of investment clubs. The findings indicate that net increases in instrumental ties at the individual level produce social capital at the organization level in two ways: by increasing the information pool available to …

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