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Social Structure and Organizations Revisited
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Michael Lounsbury
Michael Lounsbury
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Marc J. Ventresca
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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19
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0733-558X(2002)19
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978-1-84950-149-1
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978-0-76230-872-9
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0733-558X
Publication date:
2002
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11. The organizational vitality of conservative protestantism

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Mitchell L Stevens
Mitchell L Stevens
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Mitchell L Stevens
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2002
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    2002
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2002

I argue that two insights of organizational sociology enhance standing explanations of the vitality of conservative Protestant (CP) faiths. I outline the limits of rational choice and subcultural identity approaches to CP vitality, and show how Stinchcombe's early (1965) claim about the organizational production of solidarity, and the institutionalist notion of the field, help to redress those limitations.

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