Modal constructions in sociological arguments (2009)
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Hannan, M., Polos, L., & Hsu, G. (2009). Modal constructions in sociological arguments

This paper introduces modal logics to a sociological audience. We firstprovide an overview of the formal properties of this family of models andoutline key differences with classical first-order logic. We then build amodel to represent processes of p... Read More about Modal constructions in sociological arguments.

Typecasting and legitimation : a formal theory (2009)
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Hsu, G., Hannan, M., & Polos, L. (2009). Typecasting and legitimation : a formal theory

We develop a unifying framework to integrate two of organizational sociology’s theory fragments on categorization: typecasting and form emergence. Typecasting is a producer-level theory that considers the consequences producers face for specializing... Read More about Typecasting and legitimation : a formal theory.