TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durrand,Rodolphe
AU  - Granqvist,Nina
AU  - Tyllström,Anna
TI  - From categories to categorization: studies in sociology, organizations and strategy at the crossroads 
T2  - Research in the sociology of organizations,
SN  - 9781787142381 (e-book)
AV  - HM786 .F76 2017
U1  - 302.35 23
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Organizational sociology
KW  - Organizational behavior
KW  - Business & Economics
KW  - Organizational Behavior
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Organizational theory & behaviour
KW  - bicssc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X201751
ER  -