From Categories to Categorization

Rodolphe Durrand (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 1787142396 / ISBN 13: 9781787142398

Editore: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017

From Categories to Categorization | Rodolphe Durrand (u. a.) | Buch | Einband - fest (Hardcover) | Englisch | 2017 | Emerald Publishing Limited | EAN 9781787142398 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Codice articolo 121934699

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Rodolphe Durand, HEC Paris, Paris, FranceNina Granqvist, Aalto University, Aalto, FinlandAnna Tyllström, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Finland

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: From Categories to Categorization
Casa editrice: Emerald Publishing Limited
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: Buch
Condizione: Neu