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Bottom-Up Collegiality, Top-Down Collegiality, or Inside-Out Collegiality? Analyses of Multilevel Networks, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Laboratories for Social Change

Author : Emmanuel Lazega

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Abstract

This paper argues that the analysis of multilevel networks (AMN) is useful to understand politics, institutional entrepreneurship, and social change. AMN helps identify multilevel relational infrastructures (in particular multilevel social status) on which institutional entrepreneurship depends, especially in collegial oligarchies as laboratories for social change. In heavily bureaucratized societies, these laboratories take various forms such as bottom-up collegiality, top-down collegiality, and inside-out collegiality. We argue that, in an era of vital transitions, one of the main challenges for social network analyses is to use AMN to observe these collegial oligarchies and to model and understand social (in)capacities to build alternative multilevel relational infrastructures promoting social change. This challenge leads to another: that of understanding the conditions under which a form of collegiality is selected by contextualizing institutional entrepreneurship and its multilevel relational infrastructures. The paper theorizes organized mobility and relational turnover as important dimensions of this contextualization of institutionalization processes.

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To avoid a frequent misunderstanding it is important to stress that collegiality is not the informal dimension of bureaucracy but the organizational idealtype orthogonal to that of bureaucracy. Both bureaucracy and collegiality have their own formal and informal dimensions, their own strengths and weaknesses or vicious cycles.
 
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Metadata
Title
Bottom-Up Collegiality, Top-Down Collegiality, or Inside-Out Collegiality? Analyses of Multilevel Networks, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Laboratories for Social Change
Author
Emmanuel Lazega
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Challenges in Social Network Research

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-31462-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-31463-7

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31463-7_2

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