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This book sheds light on the increasing pressure on organizations for compliance to standards in the 'audit society'. It explores the conditions and contradictions under which deviance in organizations occurs, and applies structuration theory to cover aspects of both structure and agency to explain organisational deviance from standards.
List of contents
- 1: Andrea Fried and Besma Glaa: Introduction to Deviance in a World of Standards
- Part I: Framing Organizational Deviance from Standards
- 2: Andrea Fried and Arvind Singhal: A Second Order Observation of Organizational Deviance
- 3: Andrea Fried and Peter Walgenbach: Structurationist Framework to Explore Organizational Deviance from Standards
- 4: Sarah Langer, Ronny Gey, and Diana Karadzhova-Beyer: Investigating Organizational Deviance from Standards In-Depth
- Part II: Exploring Organizational Deviance From Standards In The Field
- 5: Ronny Gey, Sarah Langer, and Andrea Fried: Attentive Deviance from Standards at CraneSolutions
- 6: Ronny Gey, Sarah Langer, and Andrea Fried: Over-Conformity with Standards at MedTech
- 7: Sarah Langer, Ronny Gey, Diana Karadzhova-Beyer, and Andrea Fried: Non-Regulated Deviance From Standards at MetroEngineers
- Part III: Explaining Organizational Deviance From Standards
- 8: Andrea Fried and Sarah Langer: Typology of Organizational Deviance from Standards
- 9: Sarah Langer and Andrea Fried: Monitoring of Standard Enactment for Exploration and Exploitation
- 10: Andrea Fried: Understanding Deviance from Standards: Implications for Corporate Responsibility and Criminal Law
About the author
Andrea Fried is Associate Professor in Business Administration at the Linköping University, Sweden, and Director of the DFG research project Dangerous and Beneficial Drifts of Standards in the Modern Working Environment at the Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.
Summary
This book sheds light on the increasing pressure on organizations for compliance to standards in the 'audit society'. It explores the conditions and contradictions under which deviance in organizations occurs, and applies structuration theory to cover aspects of both structure and agency to explain organisational deviance from standards.
Additional text
Standards are intended and expected to be repeatedly or continuously used by a substantial number of the parties for whom they are meant. However, this use is not self-evident. Standards may be ignored, unconsciously or consciously, but this book highlights another phenomenon: stakeholders may deviate from standards - again unconsciously or consciously. This book provides a thorough analysis of such deviations using in-depth case studies, revealing that different categories of deviations apply. Some of these were touched on in previous research but this is the first real study of them, making this book a great addition to the body of knowledge of standardisation, relevant for both the academic community and practitioners.
