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The origins of competition: institution and organization 竞争的起源:制度与组织
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0004
Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse
Institutional conditions and organizational efforts are key for understanding how and why the elements constituting competition come about. Several contemporary institutions favour the construction of competition. States, organizations, and individuals are increasingly being seen as actors that are able to compete with each other, and globalization and other recent institutional developments have increased the number of relationships that they can construct. An impressive economic development during the last century has not prevented a continued sense of scarcity and new desires have emerged, not least the desire for status positions. Fourth parties organize social life in ways that create competition by intention or unintentionally. Organizers of contests in politics, markets, sports and many other sectors construct actors, relationships, and scarcity for something desired. Similar efforts have been an essential part of many recent reforms of organizations and markets. The increasing number of prizes and rankings in almost any area of life produces scarcity and is likely to create new desires for goods that per definition are scarce.
制度条件和组织努力是理解构成竞争的要素如何以及为什么产生的关键。一些当代机构赞成建立竞争机制。国家、组织和个人日益被视为能够相互竞争的行为体,全球化和其他最近的制度发展增加了他们可以建立的关系的数量。上个世纪令人印象深刻的经济发展并没有阻止持续的匮乏感,新的欲望出现了,尤其是对地位地位的渴望。第四方组织社会生活的方式有意或无意地制造竞争。政治、市场、体育和许多其他领域的竞赛组织者为所期望的东西构建参与者、关系和稀缺性。类似的努力是最近许多组织和市场改革的重要组成部分。几乎在生活的任何领域,奖品和排名的增加都产生了稀缺性,并可能产生对按定义来说是稀缺的商品的新欲望。
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Competition by mutual adjustment 相互调整竞争
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0003
Patrik Aspers
This chapter looks at competition, asking how it comes about and how it develops, with a focus on mutual adjustment. Mutual adjustment covers the social process due to decisions that actors make for themselves and not for others. Though all actual competition involves mutual adjustment, the focus here is on how a state of competition arises as a consequence of actors who mutually adjust to one another. Competition is seen as an unintended consequence created by actors who may have different desires and intentions and who are observing, adjusting, mimicking, and relating in different ways to what others are doing. The chapter analyses the relationship between mutual adjustment and organized competition and offers empirical examples of the state of competition due to mutual adjustment.
这一章着眼于竞争,询问它是如何产生和发展的,重点是相互调整。相互调整包括由于行为者为自己而不是为他人做出的决定而产生的社会过程。虽然所有实际的竞争都涉及相互调整,但这里的重点是竞争状态是如何作为参与者相互调整的结果而产生的。竞争被视为一种意想不到的结果,由行动者产生,他们可能有不同的欲望和意图,并以不同的方式观察、调整、模仿和联系他人的行为。本章分析了相互调整与有组织竞争的关系,并提供了相互调整导致的竞争状态的实证例子。
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Competition as sense making 竞争是有意义的
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0002
Daniel B. Sands, G. Cattani, J. Porac, J. Greenberg
At the root of the conceptual difficulties in determining the competitive structures that underpin markets is the fact that firms and their product offerings can be described along a large number of attributes, and so be viewed as more or less similar depending on the attributes used for comparison. Our chapter exposes the multi-level cognitive embeddedness of competition among restaurants in New York City. Using field interviews and archival data on restaurant evaluations, categories, pricing, and menus, we employ qualitative counterfactual analysis to address fundamental issues concerning competitive boundaries that cut across categorical, organizational, and transactional perspectives of competition. We argue that conceptualizations of competition are only loosely coupled across different perspectives, and we contend that competitive judgments are better construed as a collective sensemaking process where different actors interact and competitive boundaries are constantly defined, contested, and redefined. Thus, we propose a heuristic framework for understanding the cognitive embeddedness of competition as part of a broader sensemaking perspective of competition.
在确定支撑市场的竞争结构时,概念性困难的根源在于这样一个事实,即企业及其产品可以按照大量的属性来描述,因此根据用于比较的属性,它们被视为或多或少相似。本章揭示了纽约市餐馆之间竞争的多层次认知嵌入性。通过实地访谈和餐馆评估、类别、定价和菜单的档案数据,我们采用定性反事实分析来解决有关竞争边界的基本问题,这些问题跨越了竞争的分类、组织和交易视角。我们认为,竞争的概念只是在不同的角度之间松散耦合,我们认为,竞争判断最好被解释为一个集体的意义制造过程,在这个过程中,不同的参与者相互作用,竞争边界不断被定义、争论和重新定义。因此,我们提出了一个启发式框架来理解竞争的认知嵌入性,作为更广泛的竞争语义视角的一部分。
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Competition and auditing: esteemed but incompatible ideas 竞争与审计:受人尊敬却互不相容的概念
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0008
K. Brunsson, Katharina Rahnert
The ideas of competition and financial auditing are both socially esteemed and expected to benefit the national economy. Applying a historical perspective, the chapter clarifies how the relationship between the two ideas emerged and developed. Was it possible for financial auditors to simultaneously compete for the appreciation of two stakeholder groups with conflicting interests—client firms and the users of financial statements? It is concluded that combining the idea of competition with that of financial auditing does not elicit the expected benefits of any of the ideas. Auditors, regulators, and academics all relate the idea of competition to economic relationships with client firms, whereas relationships with other stakeholders are observed rhetorically. Yet these stakeholders constitute the very rationale for financial auditing. The compatibility of institutionalized, socially esteemed ideas is ignored even though this goes contrary to the expected benefits of these ideas.
竞争和财务审计的理念受到社会的尊重,并有望为国民经济带来好处。本章运用历史的观点,阐明了这两种思想之间的关系是如何产生和发展的。财务审计师是否有可能同时为两个利益冲突的利益相关者群体——客户公司和财务报表使用者——的增值而竞争?结论是,将竞争理念与财务审计理念相结合并不能产生任何一种理念的预期效益。审计师、监管者和学者都将竞争的概念与客户公司的经济关系联系起来,而与其他利益相关者的关系则是修辞性的。然而,这些利益相关者构成了财务审计的基本原理。制度化的、受社会尊重的思想的兼容性被忽视了,即使这与这些思想的预期好处背道而驰。
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Constructing competition for status: sports and higher education 建构地位竞争:体育与高等教育
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0006
Nils Brunsson, Linda Wedlin
The likelihood and forms of competition for status—or any other good—are dependent on how the good is allocated in society, and such allocation may, in turn, be strongly influenced by organizational efforts. We discuss the ways by which status allocation is organized in the fields of sports and higher education and analyse how and why certain forms of organization aid in constructing competition. Using the case of higher education, we show how actorhood, relationships, and status scarcity have been organized for a specific entity, the university. We argue that desire for status is more difficult to create by organizational efforts, and such desire may be difficult to justify within an organization. We end the chapter by discussing strategies for organizations competing for status and the risks that such strategies involve.
对地位或任何其他利益的竞争的可能性和形式取决于这种利益如何在社会中分配,而这种分配反过来又可能受到组织努力的强烈影响。我们讨论了体育和高等教育领域地位分配的组织方式,分析了某些组织形式如何以及为什么有助于构建竞争。以高等教育为例,我们展示了角色、关系和地位稀缺性是如何为一个特定的实体(大学)组织起来的。我们认为,对地位的渴望很难通过组织的努力来创造,而且这种渴望可能很难在组织内证明是合理的。在本章的最后,我们将讨论组织竞争地位的策略以及这种策略所涉及的风险。
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Competition unbundled: taking stock and looking forward 非捆绑竞争:盘点和展望
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0014
Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse, K. Lagerström
In this final chapter, we discuss how the preceding chapters illuminate some fundamental questions about competition. How is it constructed? How are the behaviours resulting from competition managed? What are the consequences of competition? How can competition be removed? And, how do these factors vary with the good people compete for? Our aim is to provide an outline of a social science research programme on competition that is long overdue. A central message of the book is that competition seems ubiquitous but that it should not be taken for granted or be naturalized as an inevitable aspect of human existence. Its emergence, maintenance, and change are often the result of intention and purposive efforts, and a central challenge for social science is to learn more about these developments.
在这最后一章中,我们将讨论前面的章节如何阐明有关竞争的一些基本问题。它是如何构建的?如何管理竞争产生的行为?竞争的后果是什么?如何消除竞争?并且,这些因素如何随着人们竞争的好东西而变化?我们的目标是提供一个早就应该进行的关于竞争的社会科学研究计划的大纲。这本书的核心信息是,竞争似乎无处不在,但它不应被视为理所当然,也不应被归化为人类生存的一个不可避免的方面。它的出现、维持和变化往往是意图和有目的的努力的结果,社会科学的一个核心挑战是更多地了解这些发展。
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A new understanding of competition 对竞争有了新的认识
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0001
Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Nils Brunsson, Raimund Hasse
Competition is currently found in many, if not most, social domains, such as the economy, politics, public services, sports, culture, higher education, and science. But competition is not endemic to any of these fields. Rather, it has been constructed by those involved or by observers. We ask what competition is and how it can be introduced into a new context. Critically reflecting on insights from economics, management studies and sociology, we define competition as a combined social construction of four factors: actorhood, relationships among actors, scarcity, and desire. We shed light on asymmetric constructions of competition among different actors. Our definition leaves open the effect of competition on behaviour: competition may lead competitors to avoid interaction with each other or to cooperate; it may motivate people to try harder or it may demotivate them. Finally, we discuss issues for further research that follow from our understanding of competition.
目前,在经济、政治、公共服务、体育、文化、高等教育和科学等许多社会领域都存在竞争。但这些领域的竞争并不是地方性的。相反,它是由参与者或观察者构建的。我们问什么是竞争,以及如何将竞争引入新的环境。批判性地反思了经济学、管理学和社会学的见解,我们将竞争定义为四个因素的综合社会建构:演员身份、演员之间的关系、稀缺性和欲望。我们阐明了不同参与者之间竞争的不对称结构。我们的定义没有考虑竞争对行为的影响:竞争可能导致竞争者避免相互交往或合作;它可能会激励人们更加努力,也可能会让他们失去动力。最后,我们讨论了进一步研究的问题,从我们对竞争的理解。
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Avoiding competition: the effects of rankings in the food waste field 避免竞争:排名在食物浪费领域的影响
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0007
N. Arnold
Ranks are often seen as drivers for competition. This chapter critically examines the link between ranks and competition by investigating the actors’ actual desire for the highest positions. Empirically, the author examines the role of the food waste hierarchy in establishing status competition in the food waste field. This discrete ranking creates ‘winners’ at the top (the challengers that prevent food waste by generating demand for it), who respond enthusiastically to the food waste hierarchy to benefit from status gains. In contrast, the ‘losers’ at the bottom (biogas plants) show very little interest in improving their position. They do not see themselves as players in such a competitive game and direct their attention towards other competitions outside the field. The chapter argues that ranks do not necessarily induce competition, since the actors may be involved in multiple competitions and decide whether it is worth pursuing high status within each one.
职级通常被视为竞争的驱动力。本章通过调查演员对最高职位的实际渴望,批判性地考察了等级和竞争之间的联系。从实证角度,作者考察了食物垃圾等级在建立食物垃圾领域地位竞争中的作用。这种离散的排名在顶部创造了“赢家”(通过产生对食物浪费的需求来防止食物浪费的挑战者),他们对食物浪费的等级制度反应热烈,以从地位的提升中获益。相比之下,底部的“失败者”(沼气厂)对改善自己的地位几乎没有兴趣。他们不把自己看作是这样一场竞争激烈的比赛的参与者,而是把注意力放在赛场外的其他比赛上。本章认为,等级并不一定会导致竞争,因为参与者可能会参与多个竞争,并决定是否值得在每个竞争中追求高地位。
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引用次数: 2
Reversing competition: the case of corporate governance 逆转竞争:以公司治理为例
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898012.003.0012
Fabien Foureault
This chapter tries to identify the conditions under which a fourth party can tame competition in order to achieve cooperation. It relies on an in-depth case study of a multinational corporation acquired by a private equity firm through leveraged buy-out during the 2000s. It is shown that the private equity firm wanted to foster collaboration among competing operating units to increase firm performance but that it failed, despite the interest of many middle managers. The main reason was that top managers of these operating units, facing the great recession, strategically impeded cooperation because they thought that the private equity firm could break up the corporation in the near future, a belief inscribed in the ‘moral economy’ of managerialism. It is concluded that competition may be more easily reversed in firms with different types of owners or in other sectors where self-interested behaviour is less institutionalized.
本章试图确定在何种条件下,第四方可以驯服竞争以实现合作。它依赖于对一家跨国公司的深入案例研究,该公司在2000年代通过杠杆收购被一家私人股本公司收购。这表明,私人股本公司希望促进竞争经营单位之间的合作,以提高公司业绩,但它失败了,尽管许多中层管理人员的利益。主要原因是,面对经济大衰退,这些运营部门的高层管理人员在战略上阻碍了合作,因为他们认为私募股权公司可能会在不久的将来分拆公司,这种信念铭刻在管理主义的“道德经济”中。结论是,在拥有不同类型所有者的公司或在自利行为不太制度化的其他部门,竞争可能更容易逆转。
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Why do state-owned utilities become subject to financial logics? The case of energy distribution in Flanders 为什么国有公用事业会受制于财务逻辑?佛兰德斯的能源分配案例
IF 3.9 2区 社会学 Q2 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.1177/10245294211025948
Laura Deruytter, Griet Juwet, David Bassens
According to political economists, the state’s governance of infrastructure is becoming prone to processes of financialization. To date, however, research on how state owners of infrastructure enable and react to the entry of financial logics into such domains remains limited. This paper mobilizes the case of Eandis, a Flemish energy grid company, as a typical case to examine the causal mechanisms involved when state-owned utilities become subject to financial logics. During the 2000s, Flemish municipalities increased their ownership of Eandis, while the company deepened its debt exposure to optimize return on capital. In 2016, Eandis aimed to attract private financial equity and selected a Chinese investment fund as a potential co-shareholder. Although this buy-in was blocked, the conditions under which the state-owned company became increasingly entangled with financial markets remain unchanged and warrant a deeper examination. To explain this trajectory, we identify two causal mechanisms in the fields of market-making and ownership strategies by the multiscalar state. First, we show how regulatory models caused Eandis to focus on financial metrics such as credit ratings, subjecting management to financial market disciplines. Second, we find that budgetary constraints, combined with top-down utility governance, have made municipalities dependent on financial returns on utilities. The interaction between market-making and financial ownership strategies institutionalizes a financialized gridlock, in which municipal shareholders’ interests conflict with the need for low consumer fees and green grid investment. We argue that reforming the regulatory framework and strengthening fiscal solidarity across state layers would allow states to develop non-financialized strategies.
根据政治经济学家的说法,国家对基础设施的治理越来越倾向于金融化进程。然而,到目前为止,关于基础设施的国家所有者如何支持和应对金融逻辑进入这些领域的研究仍然有限。本文以佛兰德电网公司Eandis为典型案例,考察了国有公用事业受制于财务逻辑的因果机制。2000年代,佛兰德市政府增加了对Eandis的所有权,同时该公司加深了债务敞口,以优化资本回报。2016年,Eandis旨在吸引私人金融股权,并选择了一家中国投资基金作为潜在的共同股东。尽管这次收购被阻止,但这家国有企业与金融市场日益纠缠的条件仍然没有改变,需要进行更深入的审查。为了解释这一轨迹,我们通过多尺度状态确定了做市和所有权策略领域的两个因果机制。首先,我们展示了监管模型是如何使Eandis关注信用评级等财务指标的,使管理层服从金融市场纪律。其次,我们发现预算限制,加上自上而下的公用事业治理,使市政当局依赖公用事业的财务回报。做市和金融所有权战略之间的互动使金融化僵局制度化,在这种僵局中,市政股东的利益与低消费者费用和绿色电网投资的需求相冲突。我们认为,改革监管框架和加强各州的财政团结将使各州能够制定非金融化战略。
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