Borderline institution

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Emmanuel Lazega
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Abstract

This paper introduces the concept of “borderline institution” to characterize an institution in which actors push upstream the boundary between the normal and the pathological and find downstream ways of systematically taking advantage of this push ex-post. This happens for example when actors make decisions based on predictions; and are simultaneously allowed by vertical concentration to manage conflicts generated by the consequences of these decisions when these predictions fail. A theory of how to identify a borderline institution based on this vertical concentration uses bankruptcy proceedings at the Commercial Court of Paris as an example, relying on Karl Polanyi's concept of double movement and Margaret Archer's concept of double morphogenesis. In this court, bankers as lay judges can control both credit-related predictions at the bank, and bankruptcy proceedings at the court. Enabling conditions for borderline institutional entrepreneurs as “vertical linchpins” in this multilevel context explain how they concentrate enough power to reach a position from which to drive such dynamics. The conclusion asks whether societies promote new borderline institutions to face contemporary and urgent existential challenges.

边缘机构
本文提出了 "边界体制 "的概念,以描述这样一种体制,即行为体在上游推动正常与病态之间的边界,并在下游找到系统地事后利用这种推动的方法。例如,当行为者根据预测做出决策时,就会出现这种情况;同时,当这些预测失败时,纵向集中又允许行为者管理这些决策的后果所产生的冲突。卡尔-波兰尼(Karl Polanyi)的 "双重运动"(double movement)概念和玛格丽特-阿切尔(Margaret Archer)的 "双重形态发生"(double morphogenesis)概念,以巴黎商事法院的破产程序为例,阐述了如何根据这种纵向集中来识别边缘机构的理论。在该法院中,银行家作为非专业法官既可以控制银行与信贷相关的预测,也可以控制法院的破产程序。在这种多层次的背景下,边缘机构企业家作为 "纵向关键人物 "的有利条件解释了他们如何集中足够的权力,以达到可以推动这种动态的地位。结论提出了这样一个问题:社会是否会促进新的边缘机构来应对当代紧迫的生存挑战?
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3.30
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14.30%
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期刊介绍: The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour publishes original theoretical and methodological articles that examine the links between social structures and human agency embedded in behavioural practices. The Journal is truly unique in focusing first and foremost on social behaviour, over and above any disciplinary or local framing of such behaviour. In so doing, it embraces a range of theoretical orientations and, by requiring authors to write for a wide audience, the Journal is distinctively interdisciplinary and accessible to readers world-wide in the fields of psychology, sociology and philosophy.
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