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The Study of Medical Institutions
(SAGE Periodicals Press, 1993)
During more than three decades of scholarship on American medicine, Eliot Freidson has both contributed to and advocated a distinctive variety of medical sociology: one that applies structural perspectives to medical ...
Does the Market Pay Off? Earnings Inequality and Returns to Education in Urban China
(2002-04-01)
The paper examines earnings inequality and earnings returns to education in China among four types of workers characterized by their labor market history. Compared to workers staying in the state sector, early market ...
Community Isomorphism and Corporate Social Action
(Academy of Management Review (Forthcoming), 2005)
We advance a model of how institutional pressures at the community level shape
corporate social action within the metropolitan area in which firms are headquartered. We define corporate social action as those firm behaviors ...
Being Asian American
(Sage Publications, 1997)
The interplay between individualist and collectivist orientations, ethnic identity, and beliefs about stereotypes was explored among Asian Americans. The authors proposed four components of Asian American Identity: feelings ...
The Global Spread of Stock Exchange, 1980-1998
(2000-10-01)
Nations opened local stock exchanges at a rapid pace during the late 1980s and 1990s, creating a channel for investment capital from wealthy industrial nations to "emerging markets" as well as a mechanism for institutional ...
The Responsibility Paradox: Multinational Firms and Global Corporate Social Responsibility
(2005)
This paper examines the impact of multinational firms’ increasingly blurred geographical and institutional boundaries on the nature and definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It begins with a brief history ...
The sociology of enterprise, accounting and budget rules: Implications for organizational theory
(Elsevier, 1986)
The sociology of organizations has ignored the evolution of and variation in enterprise rules, budget systems and accounting rules. This paper takes a broad approach to accounting rules, arguing that they are related to ...
The Politics of Population Planning in Malaysia and the Philippines
(Sage Publications, 1971)
Teacher Training Designs for Improving Instruction in Interracial Classrooms
(Sage Publications, 1971)
Teacher training programs are among the variety of efforts utilized to meet the challenge of school desegregation and to improve the quality of interracial education. This article details some of the underlying assumptions ...