Abstract The article analyzes the investigations conducted by the Berlin police into the subsequent perpetrator of the vehicle-ramming attack at a Berlin Christmas market on December 19, 2016. We explore why the police closed these investigations prematurely and thereby focus on an attempt to prevent lone actor terrorism. The analysis shows that the police closed its investigations owing to organizational dynamics driven by an increasing need to justify further resource investments in the face of absent conclusive evidence and scarce resources in relation to the organizational case ecology. We propose hypotheses for future research and formulate three contributions to existing research on the sociology of police, terrorism prevention, and lone actor research.
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Abstract Our "Beacons of Organizational Sociology" series makes available, through first-time translations, texts that have shaped debates in organizational sociology in non-English-speaking countries, or presents reflections on such debates by established scholars. The first text in this series is a shortened English translation of the German article “Organisation als reflexive Strukturation” by Günther Ortmann, Jörg Sydow, and Arnold Windeler, published in 1997 in the highly influential book “Theorien der Organisation. Die Rückkehr der Gesellschaft” [Theories of Organization. The Return of Society]. The article applies Giddens’ social theory to organizational research. In elaborating on “the principle of reflexive organization,” the text provides a social-theoretically informed concept of organization that is of continuing relevance for organization research today. The publication can be classified as one of the decisive writings by the authors contributing to establishing organizational research based on structuration theory in the German-speaking world, informing many studies, e.g., on new organizational forms, innovation, and inter-organizational relations. The concise overview of the various existing studies in organization research using a structuration perspective at that time in the original manuscript is not part of this translation.
我们的“组织社会学的灯塔”系列通过首次翻译提供了在非英语国家形成组织社会学辩论的文本，或者由知名学者对此类辩论进行反思。本系列的第一篇文章是对德语文章《组织也是反思性结构》(Organisation als reflexive struckation)的简短英文翻译，作者是g nther Ortmann、Jörg Sydow和Arnold Windeler，该文章于1997年发表在极具影响力的著作《组织理论》(Theorien der Organisation)中。《组织理论》。社会的回归]。本文将吉登斯的社会理论应用于组织研究。在阐述“反身性组织原则”时，本文提供了一个社会理论的组织概念，它与今天的组织研究仍然相关。该出版物可以被归类为作者在德语世界建立基于结构理论的组织研究的决定性著作之一，为许多研究提供了信息，例如，新的组织形式，创新和组织间关系。在原始手稿中，当时使用结构视角对组织研究中各种现有研究的简明概述不是本翻译的一部分。
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Abstract In the fight against the Covid-19 virus, France and Sweden stood at opposing ends along a continuum: one country went for lockdowns; the other relied on voluntary measures. Both strategies were shaped by the governing structures in each country: in France complex and fragmented organizational arrangements focusing on health security, in Sweden a single dominant agency maintaining a broad public health perspective. Using concepts from organization theory – loose versus tight coupling and exploitation versus exploration – we show how the divergent strategies evolved in both countries. While loosely coupled organizational arrangements were rapidly tightened in Sweden, the system in France went in the opposite direction becoming loosely coupled. While the Swedish case was mainly one of exploitation of existing knowledge and expertise, more unchartered territories were explored in France. While alignment across actors in Sweden took place with one dominant agency in the center, alignment in France was related to actions of neighboring countries. Evidently, there was more than one way to fight the pandemic.
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Writing this introductory essay for the journal on which we have worked for so many years entails some problems, not just emotionally (because we worked so hard on it), but more generally where this format is concerned. Of course, an introduction needs to set forth the tasks and relevant phenomena to be addressed in the journal. And we should be responsible for crafting it. Moreover, together with a group of diverse scholars, many of them strongly connected to the Research Committee 17 “Sociology of Organizations” of the International Sociological Association (ISA RC 17), we already defined a scope for the Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOSO). At the same time, we see a strong need to resist defining narrowly what a sociology of organization supposedly is, a question that immediately comes up when reading JOSO’s title. What we certainly can say is that, for us, organizational sociology entails taking organization seriously as a specific phenomenon or as a specific concept that is more than just a mere synonym for social order in general. Apart from that though, we will not provide a definition, because we want to embrace the different definitions that are out there and see such definitions rather as reflecting something that is in flux and continually recreated. Therefore, you, the (future) contributors to JOSO, are at the center of defining this sub-field of sociology in rather practical terms! In recent years, there has been much discussion about the state and identity of “organizational sociology”, involving ourselves, ISA RC 17, and many other colleagues (Besio, du Gay, and Serrano Velarde 2020; Godwyn 2022; Gorman 2014;
为我们工作了这么多年的杂志写这篇介绍性的文章需要一些问题，不仅仅是情感上的问题(因为我们为此付出了很大的努力)，而且更普遍的是这种格式。当然，导言部分需要阐述本刊要处理的任务和相关现象。我们应该负责制定它。此外，与一群不同的学者一起，他们中的许多人与国际社会学协会(ISA RC 17)的17“组织社会学”研究委员会有密切的联系，我们已经为《组织社会学杂志》(JOSO)定义了一个范围。与此同时，我们看到强烈需要抵制狭隘地定义组织社会学应该是什么，这个问题在阅读JOSO的标题时立即出现。我们可以肯定的是，对我们来说，组织社会学要求我们认真地把组织看作一种特殊的现象，或者是一种特殊的概念，而不仅仅是社会秩序的同义词。除此之外，我们不会给出一个定义，因为我们想要接受不同的定义，而不是把这些定义看作是不断变化和不断重新创造的东西。因此，你，JOSO的(未来)贡献者，是在相当实际的术语中定义社会学的这个子领域的中心!近年来，有很多关于“组织社会学”的状态和身份的讨论，涉及我们自己，ISA RC 17，以及许多其他同事(Besio, du Gay, and Serrano Velarde 2020;Godwyn 2022;戈尔曼2014;
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Abstract We argue that lived spaces play a crucial role in influencing how people can or cannot enact their agency. Based on an interpretive ethnographic study of work in a large Sri Lankan tea plantation and drawing on the conceptual lenses of relational agency and social ecology, we explore how workers experience their ability to act agentically in relation to their social circumstances and examine the personal and social consequences. In doing so, we extend conceptualizations of relational agency as a dialectic of belonging and not belonging within a social ecology – an ongoing flow of intertwined activities and ways of being and relating to each other that create and reproduce social orders and forms of accountability.
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