scholarly journals Dual Roles and Blurred Identities: A Framing Contest between Professional Associations in a Local Strategic Action Field

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Loscher ◽  
Lukas Loehlein ◽  
Hansrudi Lenz
Keyword(s):  
Professional Associations ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Strategic Action Field

scholarly journals Taste matters: Cultural capital and elites in proximate Strategic Action Fields

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crawford Spence ◽  
Chris Carter ◽  
Javier Husillos ◽  
Pablo Archel
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Professional Roles ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Action Field

Recent literature suggests that elites are increasingly fragmented and divided. Yet there is very little empirical research that maps the distinctions between different elite groups. This article explores the cultural divisions that pertain to elite factions in two distinct but proximate Strategic Action Fields. A key insight from the article is that the public sector faction studied exhibits a much broader, more aesthetic set of cultural dispositions than their private sector counterparts. This permits a number of inter-related contributions to be made to literature on both elites and field theory. First, the findings suggest that cultural capital acts as a salient source of distinction between elite factions in different Strategic Action Fields. Second, it is demonstrated how cultural capital is socially functional as certain cultural dispositions are strongly homologous with specific professional roles. Third, the article demonstrates the implications for the structure of the State when two culturally distinct elites are brought together in a new Strategic Action Field.

scholarly journals Arguments for a post-pandemic Public Employment Eco System in Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Mary P. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Network Governance ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Strategic Action Field

Abstract The past was a different country, and the future will be different too. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought in its wake massive unemployment, shifting attention away from pre-pandemic labour market challenges. More labour market turbulence can be expected in the context of the fourth industrial revolution, digitalisation and automation, as well as climate-change-related transitions. In this context of such acute uncertainty, flexible, adaptable public employment institutions are a core requirement. Concerned with institution building, this paper explores how to maximise synergies in existing Public Employment Services (PES) while developing an ecosystem that can utilise all other available resources across public, private and not-for-profit national and local institutions. The political context for policy and institutional reform is a centralised, relatively small and open state which demonstrates some capacity to learn from previous crises and institutional reforms to tackle unemployment. The concept of a Strategic Action Field is used to deepen our understanding of the structure and agency dynamics underlying PES reform in the context of quasi-markets. A more systematic approach to institutional reform is needed that values a diversity of actors – this is visualised as a Public Employment Eco System (PEES) embedded in processes of network governance and collaborative innovation.

scholarly journals Banking Industry Regulation and Strategic Action Fields: a research agenda for Economic Sociology.

2016 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Manuel Ángel Santana Turégano
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Industry Regulation ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Strategic Action Field

This paper examines the evolution of the regulation of the banking industry in the EU after the global financial crisis of 2008. It proposes to analyze the sector as a strategic action field, embedded in a web of fields and where participants differ in their power and influence. The analysis is focused in two policies implemented under the new European regulation, the limitation of the variable remuneration and the introduction of diversity quotas. It follows the policy making mechanism, from the scientific discussion about whether these measures improve the performance of organizations to the adoption of policies that close all controversies in a black box, following ideas developed in the Social Studies of Science (SSS). This inquiry, albeit modest, suggest that a deeper understanding of the regulation of the banking industry could be gained following an approach that combines Strategic Action Fields Theory and Social Studies of Science.

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