03102nam a2200493I 4500 ovld002108168 UtOrBLW 20251029120816.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 170612s2017 enk o 001 0 eng d 9781787142381 (e-book) 9781787143395 (ePUB) UtOrBLW HM786 .F76 2017 KJU bicssc bicssc BUS085000 bisacsh bisacsh 308 From categories to categorization : studies in sociology, organizations and strategy at the crossroads / edited by Rodolphe Durand, Nina Granqvist, Anna Tyllström. Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (380) pages. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Research in the sociology of organizations, 0733-558X ; v. 51 Includes index. Prelims -- Section I: Introduction -- Section II: Categorization as politics and strategy -- Section III: Categorizing the unknown -- Section IV: Times and places of categorization -- About the authors -- Index. Categorization pervades economic life; products, services, firms and industries are continuously being classified by rivals, clients, experts and critics. A stream of research highlighting the importance of market and product categories for organizations and individuals has grown in importance during the past 40 years. This volume contains ten essays on categorization authored by some of the world's leading scholars within sociology of markets, organization theory, and strategy research. It opens with revisiting the influential theory of the categorical imperative, and moves on to present various accounts of the social processes that form part of categorization and elaboration of their consequences. Together, the different chapters effectively show that categorization is a process, tightly connected to actors involved and their specific acts, the characteristics of the entity being categorized, and the context and timing informing these activities. As such, it complements the earlier cognitive perspectives by discussing the evaluative, social, and political manifestations of categorization. Print version record Organizational sociology. 57191 Organizational behavior. 57293 Business & Economics Organizational Behavior. bisacsh 57296 Organizational theory & behaviour. bicssc 57297 Durrand, Rodolphe, editor. 61478 Granqvist, Nina, editor. 61479 Tyllström, Anna, editor. 61480 9781787142398 9781800430204 Research in the sociology of organizations ; v. 51. 57196 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X201751 52116 52116