ABSTRACT Margaret Archer defines Corporate Agency as involving both formulating goals and actively organizing in order to reach them. Primary Agency does not show either of these characteristics. In this article, I further refine this classification according to a typology of agential properties – that is, I create a ‘property space’ – based on the two properties of ‘stated aims’ and ‘active co-ordination’, which results in a four-fold table of properties. Specifically, this typology is as follows: Formal Corporate Agency (stated aims and coordinated action); Informal Corporate Agency (no stated aims but coordinated action); Withdrawn Agency (stated aims but no coordinated action); and Primary Agency (no stated aims and no coordinated action). The fruitfulness of the distinction between Formal Corporate Agency and Informal Corporate Agency is demonstrated through an empirical example taken from Sverre Lysgaard’s analysis of the ‘worker collectivity’. I also discuss how my classification of agency advances Archer’s theoretical work in this arena.

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完善弓箭手的代理机构和组织的帐户

摘要玛格丽特·阿彻（Margaret Archer）将公司代理定义为既要制定目标又要积极组织以达到目标。一级代理商没有显示任何这些特征。在本文中，我将根据代理属性的类型进一步细化该分类，即基于“既定目标”和“主动协调”这两个属性，创建一个“财产空间”。属性的四折表。具体来说，这种类型如下：正式的公司代理（规定的目标和协调的行动）；非正式公司代理（没有明确的目标，但采取协调一致的行动）；退出机构（既定目标，但没有采取协调行动）；和初级机构（没有明确的目标，没有采取协调的行动）。通过Sverre Lysgaard对“工人集体”的分析得出的经验示例，可以证明正式公司代理与非正式公司代理之间的区别富有成果。我还将讨论我的代理人分类如何在这个领域促进Archer的理论工作。