Peter Abell
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British sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Abell is a British social scientist, currently professor emeritus at the London School of Economics where he has founded and directed the "Interdisciplinary Institute of Management". He has been teaching for many years at LSE's Department of Management, managerial economics and strategy group.
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Published Works
- Social Networks in Urban Situations: Analyses of Personal Relationships in Central African Towns (1971) (274)
- Narrative Explanation: An Alternative to Variable-Centered Explanation? (2004) (268)
- The Syntax of Social Life: The Theory and Method of Comparative Narratives. (1989) (143)
- A Case for Cases (2009) (66)
- Some aspects of narrative method (1993) (63)
- Structural Balance: A Dynamic Perspective (2009) (60)
- On the prospects for a unified social science: economics and sociology (2006) (58)
- Performance effects of venture capital firm networks (2007) (55)
- Causality and Low-Frequency Complex Events (2001) (49)
- The new institutionalism and rational choice theory (1995) (43)
- Accounts and Action (1983) (41)
- On the failure of social theory (2000) (40)
- Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action. By Nan Lin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+278. $22.00 (paper). (2003) (33)
- The Impact of foreign direct investment on the United Kingdom (1974) (30)
- Rational choice theory (1991) (29)
- The Many Faces of Power and Liberty: Revealed Preference, Autonomy, and Teleological Explanation (1977) (27)
- Comparative Narratives: Some Rules for the Study of Action (1984) (26)
- An evolutionary model of social networks (2007) (25)
- Methodological Achievements in Sociology Over the Past Few Decades with Special Reference to the Interplay of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (1990) (25)
- The role of rational choice and narrative action theories in sociological theory The legacy of Coleman's Foundations (2003) (25)
- Simple Models of Group Behavior (1969) (24)
- Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Great Britain (2001) (24)
- Organizations as bargaining and influence systems (1975) (23)
- Model building in sociology (1972) (22)
- Rational Choice Theory in Sociology (2001) (21)
- Structural Balance in Dynamic Structures (1968) (20)
- The influence of structural balance and homophily/heterophobia on the adjustment of random complete signed networks (2016) (20)
- A MODEL OF THE INFORMAL STRUCTURE (CULTURE) OF ORGANIZATIONS (1996) (19)
- Sociological Theory and Rational (2000) (18)
- Putting Social Theory Right?* (2000) (18)
- Games in Networks (1989) (18)
- Homo sociologicus: do we need him/her? (1991) (17)
- Self-employment and entrepreneurship: a study of entry and exit (1996) (17)
- Causal and Constitutive Relations, and the Squaring of Coleman’s Diagram: Reply to Vromen (2010) (17)
- Industrial democracy in Europe revisited (1993) (16)
- Supporting Industrial Cooperatives in Developing Countries: Some Tanzanian Experiences (1990) (15)
- Measurement in Sociology: I. Measurement Systems (1968) (14)
- A Study of Local Sign Change Adjustment in Balancing Structures (2010) (12)
- A study of sign adjustment in weighted signed networks (2012) (12)
- An Exploration of Entry to and Exit from Self-Employment (1995) (11)
- Generalised Reciprocity and Reputation in the Theory of Cooperation: A Framework (2000) (11)
- Virtual communities? The Middle East revolutions at the Guardian forum: Comment Is Free (2011) (11)
- Establishing Support Systems for Industrial Co-Operatives: Case Studies from the Third World (1988) (9)
- History, Case Studies, Statistics, and Causal Inference (2009) (9)
- Narratives, Bayesian Narratives and Narrative Actions (2007) (8)
- Narrative method: A reply (1993) (7)
- Foundations for a Qualitative Comparative Method (1989) (7)
- Analytical Sociology and Social Mechanisms: Singular mechanisms and Bayesian narratives (2011) (7)
- Accounts and Action: Surrey Conference on Sociological Theory and Method 1 (1985) (7)
- Measurement in Sociology (1969) (6)
- What do the British want from Participation and Industrial Democracy (1980) (6)
- Small-scale industrial producer co-operatives in developing countries (1990) (6)
- Identity and Control: A Structural Theory of Social Action.Harrison C. White (1994) (5)
- Why Do Men Rebel? (1971) (5)
- Political Manipulation and Administrative Power: a Comparative Study.By Eva Etzioni-Halevy. Boston & London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 218 pp. $22.50 (1980) (4)
- Some Theory of Industrial and Economic Democracy (1985) (4)
- Head-hunter Methods for CEO Selection (2015) (3)
- Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance@@@Perspectives on Positive Political Economy (1992) (3)
- Global economics and international economic law (1998) (3)
- An Aggregate Time Series Analysis of Non-Agricultural Self-Employment in the UK (1994) (3)
- Mergers, motivation and directors' remuneration (1994) (3)
- Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach (2006) (3)
- The Coleman Diagram, Small N Inquiry and Ethnographic Causality (2018) (2)
- National Wage-Rate Claims and Settlements - II. An Exploratory Study of some Possible Determinants of Claims and Settlements (1985) (2)
- Organization Theory: A Textbook (2011) (2)
- Industrial Democracy, has it a Future? The West European Experience (1985) (2)
- A Note on the Theory of Democratic Organization (1981) (2)
- National Wage Rate Claims and Settlements: An Exploratory Study of Trade Union Bargaining Power (1980) (2)
- Perception of the Structural Balance of Part of the International System of Nations (1967) (2)
- Comparing case studies: an introduction to comparative narratives (1992) (2)
- Organizations as Bargaining and Influence Systems@@@Power, Rule and Domination (1977) (2)
- Decisions, Power and Reason: A Preliminary Formulation (1982) (2)
- Rational Choice Theory and the Analysis of Organizations (2014) (2)
- Structural Balance Theory: Recent Developments (2015) (2)
- Are Reasons Explanations? (2007) (1)
- Comparative narratives: a non technical introduction to qualitative analysis (1985) (1)
- The changing role of the finance director (1993) (1)
- Subjective Causality and Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences: Toward an Ethnographic Causality? (2019) (1)
- Denzin on Rational Choice Theory (1990) (1)
- Rational Equitarian Democracy Minimax Class and the Future of Capitalist Society: A Sketch towards a Theory (1987) (1)
- Network Size Impact upon Global Balance Structure in Small Complete Network (2015) (1)
- Book Reviews (1989) (0)
- Self‐management: Is it postmodernist? (1995) (0)
- Remote electronic system for reporting store retailing. (1994) (0)
- Case Studies and Statistics in Causal Analysis: The Role of Bayesian Narratives (2019) (0)
- THE EVOLUTION OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION COOPERATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews : Mats Alvesson: Consensus, Control and Critique 1987, Avebury, Aldershot: Gower. 162 pages (1988) (0)
- PTILOTUS FINAL REPORT (2006) (0)
- Causal Models in the Social Sciences@@@Model Building in Sociology (1972) (0)
- The Emergence and Viability of Participatory Firms (2004) (0)
- Reviews (1988) (0)
- Book reviews (1981) (0)
- Book Reviews : Klauss Bartolke, Theodor Bergman, and Ludwig Liegle (Eds.): Integrated Co-operatives in the Industrial Society: The Example of the Kibbutz 1980, Assen, The Netherlands: van Gorcum (1982) (0)
- Singuläre Mechanismen und Bayessche Narrative (2010) (0)
- The New Subjective Revolution (1992) (0)
- Self-Organised Criticality in Social Networks (2007) (0)
- Shorter Notices (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews : A. Cherns (Ed.): Quality of Working Life and the Kibbutz Experience 1980, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood. $27.50 (1982) (0)
- Book Reviews : Aat Brakel (ed.): People and Organizations Interacting 1985, Chichester: Wiley. 256 pages (1986) (0)
- Modeling Social Processes, Mathematical Models of Sociology (1978) (0)
- "I (She) did this because of that": subjective causality and Bayesian narratives in sociological explanation (2009) (0)
- Stochastic Models for Social Processes@@@Simple Models of Group Behaviour (1968) (0)
- Balance in Small Groups (1972) (0)
- A study of sign adjustment of complete network under the second structural theorem (2015) (0)
- Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
- Book Reviews (1999) (0)
- Structural balance and group formation: an exploratory study (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews (1988) (0)
- Corporate Social Responsibility, Inequality and Corporate Governance (2015) (0)
- Labour-capital partnership: a political economy of the third way (2017) (0)
- Logic on the Track of Social Change.David Braybrooke , Bryson Brown , Peter K. Schotch , Laura Byrne (1996) (0)
- THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE WORKPLACE. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE. (2015) (0)
- Electronic screen terminal for remote display of information for the retail trade (1994) (0)
- Rational choice theory and sociological theory (1996) (0)
- Structural Balance: a clarification (1969) (0)
- Shorter Notices (1982) (0)
- Response to Prychitko (1997) (0)
- Rejoinder to Horvat (1997) (0)
- Organizations as Bargaining and Influence Systems.@@@Groups within Organizations: Applications of Social Psychology to Organizational Behavior.@@@Mosaics of Organizational Character: An I-D Approach to Explain Organization Behavior. (1976) (0)
- Rational Theory of Cognition in Psychology 1. People Appear Irrational in Cognitie Experiments (0)
- Volume Information (1990) (0)
- The Mathematics of Collective Action@@@The Analysis of Complex Socioeconomic Systems (1976) (0)
- The Behavioural Sciences: Essays in Honour of George A. Lundberg (1970) (0)
- INTRODUCTION (1996) (0)
- Liability to rupture: Multiple mechanisms and subgroup formation. An exploratory theoretical study (2014) (0)
- Narratives , Bayesian Narratives and Narrative (2018) (0)
- Ethnographic Causality (2023) (0)
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