A FRAME FOR ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIONS AND MACROACTIONS

Complete sentences describing a productive event define an agent, acti on, object, instrument, alignment, setting, product, and beneficiary. We treat these categories as an Event Frame that can be applied sociol ogically in several ways. Using the frame theoretically, we suggest ho w people bring determinacy, purposefulness, and mobilizability to even ts, and thereby event sequences emerge that serve as ''macroactions'' -productive routines conducted in social establishments, and used as p urposeful actions by individuals. Employing a computer program to impl ement the Event Frame and facilitate data management, we show that the frame can be a basis for coding a narrative about organizational happ enings into a sequence of well-defined events. Making use of the analy tic capabilities of the same computer program, we illustrate how socia l networks can be extracted from events data as a basis for multi-face ted views of organizational and inter-organizational structure.