You Do Cut Your Hair, Don’t You?
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/21587Keywords:
Strategy, structure, organization, networks, Harrison WhiteAbstract
Although Harrison White was indeed in many ways a structuralist, he had a keen intuition for the role of strategy in action that has been insufficiently appreciated by many of his more recent devotees. This conception offers us a far more sophisticated and accurate understanding of social action than we have at present.
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