Stories Collection

  1. Mark Ebers, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 295 pp. $78.00. This antholo...
  2. This paper uses data on radio format changes to test hypotheses on innovations as cat...
  3. O. C. McSwite. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 306 pp. $49.95, cloth; $21.50, paper. ...
  4. This theory-development case study of the quality circle management fashion focuses o...
  5. Social Justice in a Diverse Society. Tom R. Tyler, Robert J. Boeckmann, Heather J. ...
  6. A multimethod field study of 92 workgroups explored the influence of three types of w...
  7. Organizations in America: Analyzing Their Structures and Human Resource Practices. ...
  8. This article describes how people adapt to new roles by experimenting with provisiona...
  9. The Quest for Responsibility: Accountability and Citizenship in Complex Organisations...
  10. Two qualitative studies examined the processes leading to the formation of breakaway ...
  11. Managed Care: Made in America. Arnold Birenbaum. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 193 p...
  12. Contracting for Change: Contracts in Health, Social Care, and Other Local Government ...
  13. I am delighted to announce that Professor Joseph F. Porac will be joining the Adminis...
  14. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, N...
  15. Advancement in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh. Timothy...
  16. Arguing that knowledge in the social sciences is socially constructed through the sel...
  17. Debating Rationality: Non-rational Aspects of Organizational Decision Making. Jenni...
  18. Three studies are used to examine how surveillance and sanctioning systems affect coo...
  19. Cooperative Strategies: North American Perspectives. Cooperative Strategies: Europe...
  20. During the 1960s and 1970s, executives with financial backgrounds gained prominence i...
  21. Andrea L. Larson and R. Edward Freeman, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997....
  22. Over the last ten or fifteen years, sociologists have given considerable attention to...
  23. Grant Ledgerwood, ed. Sheffield, England: Greenleaf, 1997. 251 pp. $75.00. The aim ...
  24. Scholarly interest in the performance consequences of change is reflected in a debate...
  25. Jeffrey Pfeffer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 264 pp. $38.00. At the Ma...
  26. Thomas A. Kochan, Russell D. Lansbury, and John Paul MacDuffie, eds. Ithaca, NY: Corn...
  27. Clair Brown, Yoshifumi Makata, Michael Reich, and Lloyd Ulman. New York: Oxford Unive...
  28. Denis Collins. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press of Cornell University Press, 1998. 277 pp. $39.9...
  29. Bruce E. Kaufman, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 565 pp. $29.95. T...
  30. One basic assumption in discrimination theories is that ascribed characteristics are ...
  31. Mitchel Y. Abolafia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. 216 pp. $29.95, c...
  32. The board interlock network has been viewed as an ideal arena in which to develop and...
  33. David P. McCaffrey and David W. Hart. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.211 pp....
  34. Despite their very different assumptions, both rational and institutional explanation...
  35. N.J. Demerath III, Peter D. Hall, Terry Schmitt, and Rhys H. Williams, eds. New York:...
  36. Gill Palmer and Steward R. Clegg, eds. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996. 356 pp. DM 153.00. ...
  37. In corporate governance, the economic and the social are inextricably linked. Board m...
  38. Richard A. Colignon, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. 367 pp. $2...
  39. Abandoning the familiar is rarely a simple process. Nearly 40 years of research confi...
  40. Mark Carl Rom. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 326 pp. $49.95, clot...
  41. How does firm performance vary with age? Organizational ecologists have addressed thi...
  42. Julian E. Orr. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1996. 172 pp. $32.50, cloth; $13.95, paper. H...
  43. Mobilizing resources to build a new organization is an undertaking laden with uncerta...
  44. Evert Vedung. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1997. 336 pp. $34.95. In Public Polic...
  45. A growing reliance on teams in changing and uncertain organizational environments cre...
  46. Tom Dixon. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996. 308 pp. $73.25 cloth; $39.50 paper. The relati...
  47. The centrality of both formal and informal rules in guiding organizational actions is...
  48. Robert French and Christopher Grey, eds. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996. 206 pp. $65.00...
  49. Rebecca L. Bordt. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. 114 pp. $24.95. ...
  50. Victoria D. Alexander. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996. 167 pp. $24.9...
  51. Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996....
  52. The vast majority of research on organization experience adopts a learning-curve pers...
  53. William A. Pasmore and Richard W. Woodman, eds. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1997. 322 p...
  54. Corporate lawyers, investment bankers, computer programmers, and many other types of ...
  55. Oliver E. Williamson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 429 pp. $45.00. Oliv...
  56. Why are some subunits in an organization able to share knowledge among themselves whe...
  57. Andrew J. Hoffman. San Francisco: New Lexington Press, 1997. 253 pp. $53.00, cloth; $...
  58. Organizations are complex social configurations that can be categorized in many ways....
  59. John F. Mahon and Richard A. McGowan. Westport, CT: Quorum, 1996. 216 pp. $59.95. T...
  60. In 1937, Ronald Coase launched the modern economic theory of the firm by asking, "If ...
  61. Gary Alan Fine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 315 pp. $48.00, cloth...
  62. Professions, of which academic disciplines are a special case, compete with one anoth...
  63. Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997....
  64. In "Taking Coase Seriously," Robert Gibbons considers the use of formal economic mode...
  65. Alan C. Kerckhoff, ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996. 358 pp. $59.00 cloth. This volu...
  66. Zur Shapira, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 397 pp. $59.95. The st...
  67. Daniel Druckman, Jerome E. Singer, and Harold Van Cott, eds. Washington, DC: National...
  68. Helga Drummond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 265 pp. $60.00. Escalation...
  69. If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for di...
  70. Barbara Czarniawska and Guje Sevon, eds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1996. 284 pp. DM ...
  71. Corporations have increasingly seen alliances as attractive vehicles through which th...
  72. Bureaucratization - the increasing prevalence of formal rules in organizations and so...
  73. Max Weber was among the first great social theorists to stress the importance of legi...
  74. Since its emergence, ecological theory has become influential in shifting the focus f...
  75. Neil M. Kay. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 319 pp. $65.00. Neil Kay atte...
  76. Stewart R. Clegg, Cynthia Hardy, and Walter R. Nord, eds. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 19...
  77. William G. Roy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 338 pp. $35.00. Bi...
  78. Michael Arthur and Denise Rousseau, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 394...
  79. Raghu Garud, Praveen R. Nayyar, and Zur B. Shapira, eds. New York: Cambridge Universi...
  80. Jerald Greenberg. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 428 pp. $58.00, cloth; $26.95, paper...
  81. Over the past decade, institutional investors and other stakeholders have strongly cr...
  82. Susan Wright, ed. London: Routledge, 1994. 217 pp. $16.95. This edited volume emerg...
  83. The proportion of women in higher status positions is a key indicator of equity for t...
  84. Edwin M. Hartman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 214 pp. $39.95, cloth; $19...
  85. Though corporate expansion into a new market is one of the fundamental forms of strat...
  86. Rabindra N. Kanungo and Manuel Mendonca. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996. 152 pp. $36.0...
  87. [W]e are absolutely convinced that TQM is a fundamentally better way to conduct busin...
  88. Ivan Light and Carolyn Rosenstein. Hawthorne, NY: de Gruyter, 1995. 255 pp. $47.95, c...
  89. An active line of contemporary research on organizations investigates the effects of ...
  90. Mats Alvesson. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1995. 367 pp. $109.00. This broad and ambitious ...
  91. To gain insight into corporate behavior and performance, organization theorists have ...
  92. Stephen R. Barley and Julian E. Orr, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997....
  93. Scott R. Bowman. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1996. 436 pp. $55.00, cloth; ...
  94. Zur Shapira. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. 160 pp. $24.95. This is a sch...
  95. INTRODUCTION At a time when the triumph of capitalism seems assured and alternatives ...
  96. Business planning has traditionally been thought of as a mechanism to implement direc...
  97. Every year when they called you in on your review, it's always, "Well, you did great ...
  98. INTRODUCTION The industrial revolution marked a fundamental change in the separation ...
  99. Teamwork is currently being championed as a way of replacing inflexible, dehumanizing...
  100. PERSPECTIVES ON THE LABOR PROCESS Surveillance and Teamwork: An Unexpected Combinatio...
  101. People constantly experience emotions, yet in organizational theory, as in organizati...
  102. We sit on opposite sides of the table, like a law firm representing both sides of a d...
  103. The conception of this book is interesting. Osterman, perhaps the leading authority o...
  104. Managerial time and attention are scarce resources in organizations (Pfeffer, 1992). ...
  105. William Form has written the most comprehensive account to date of the contemporary U...
  106. A central assumption in learning perspectives on organizations is that organizations ...
  107. Ever since Marx depicted the French insurgency of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871 ...
  108. Do organizations exhibit different processes of change in response to a pressing inst...
  109. In this volume, Van Maanen continues a theme raised in earlier works, including Tales...
  110. In recent years, scholarly and popular concern about corporate governance arrangement...
  111. Sensemaking in Organizations is about words in action. Located in Sage's Foundations ...
  112. There has been a growing recognition of the impact of social accounts - explanations ...
  113. In the 35 years since publication of Cyert and March's (1963) seminal work and Simon'...
  114. Many hundreds of scholarly books are published in the fields that compose organizatio...
  115. In their introduction, the editors set out at great length why they feel a special vo...
  116. Trust in Organizations is the product of a two-day conference at Stanford, and after ...
  117. From being seen, as in classical conceptions, as a type of socio-economic structure f...
  118. Scholars studying workforce diversity are just beginning to recognize its theoretical...
  119. What is insight? What is epiphany? For many, these words bring to mind images, repres...
  120. For those familiar with the work of Jim McKay, an anthropologist at the University of...
  121. Reinventing the Workplace makes the case for a national policy on employee involvemen...
  122. The ability of executives to formulate and implement strategic initiatives that capit...
  123. Among the multiple objectives of this book, two of the more important are (1) to prov...
  124. Recent years have witnessed a flourishing interest in the social, political, and cult...
  125. Utopia in Zion presents a theoretically grounded, multimethod analysis of the rise an...
  126. Knowledge is imperfectly shared over time and across people, organizations, and indus...
  127. For those of us who have examined sport as a serious object of social and organizatio...
  128. It has been frequently argued that, at least in the long run, well-performing organiz...
  129. Barbara Gutek notes that "volumes have been written about customer service, customer ...
  130. Ideology is a set of beliefs about how the social world operates, including ideas abo...
  131. INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) has joined for...
  132. Kathryn Dudley's The End of the Line analyzes both the process and effect of the 1988...
  133. Feminists and formal organizations are often not easily combined. In the United State...
  134. In the boom years of the late 1990s it is easy to forget the decimation of the manage...
  135. Laurie Graham's On the Line at Subaru-Isuzu provides a detailed account of the hiring...
  136. Interest in institutional theory has generated an impressive volume of work, and this...
  137. Shifts in the occupational structure of society are potentially the most telling indi...
  138. The organizational literature is largely centered on the concerns of the powerful. In...
  139. Anthropologist Stacia Zabusky spent a year in Noordwijk, Holland doing ethnography in...
  140. Although an organization may increase its competitiveness through a multitude of mean...
  141. The "productivity paradox" that is the subject of this book is twofold. First, why ha...
  142. I heard so much about the City of Minneapolis, about its Chamber of Commerce, about t...
  143. For social scientists, the glamorous workplace subjects of the 1980s and 1990s includ...
  144. In their preface to this volume, Cummings and Staw praise the contribution of the cha...
  145. What factors influence industry competition in ways that affect the establishment of ...
  146. In an earlier book (1985), Lex Donaldson, who teaches at the Australian School of Man...
  147. In much of the previous literature conflict is generally deemed detrimental to perfor...
  148. There is a striking resemblance between the act of planning a menu and planning an ed...
  149. Although the topic of trust has long been of interest to organizational scholars, a v...
  150. Over the past decade, image management has become one of the hottest research topics ...
  151. Those of us who are perpetual students of negotiation and the negotiation process are...
  152. Not so long ago, negotiation was viewed as a rather sordid affair, associated with ha...
  153. How do organizations make decisions about what businesses to compete in? This questio...
  154. To extend our understanding of organizational change, I take an alternative approach:...
  155. INTRODUCTION When entrepreneurs found organizations, they make two key decisions: wha...
  156. Some people enjoy higher incomes than others. Some are promoted faster. Some are lead...
  157. Researchers in a variety of disciplines have long been interested in identifying cond...
  158. The Launch of STS-51L As a social scientist who has spent the last several years doin...
  159. Diane Vaughan's The Challenger Launch Decision is a brilliant and disturbing book. It...
  160. "All of the paper shuffling and all of the other extraneous activity that was going o...
  161. For comments on an earlier version of this paper, we are grateful to Linda Argote, Jo...
  162. The interest for U.S. readers in Australian experiences of successful reorganization ...
  163. The famed investor, Warren Buffett, once said that many corporate acquirors think of ...
  164. This book is the fourth volume of the series, Technological Innovation and Human Reso...
  165. Industries typically end up populated by only a few large institutions that prevail w...
  166. With few exceptions, organizational researchers and corporate governance experts have...
  167. That we have come a long way in our understanding of why states behave as they do is ...
  168. That we have come a long way in our understanding of why states behave as they do is ...
  169. Peter Evans boldly advances a sociological theory on how economically underdeveloped ...
  170. During the 1980s the changing relationships between universities and business firms w...
  171. The punctuated equilibrium model of change assumes that long periods of small, increm...
  172. Taking a cue from Sutton and Staw (1995), it may be useful to state what this book is...
  173. Research on embeddedness is an exciting area in sociology and economics because it ad...
  174. Tony Watson's In Search of Management is as notable for its method of inquiry and exp...
  175. China has sustained a rapid rate of economic growth since the inauguration of its eco...
  176. The goal of this book is to improve the survey process through linking science with p...
  177. The simple but powerful idea that institutions form the constraints that shape human ...
  178. For better and worse, most edited volumes escape their editors' intentions. This coll...
  179. In recent years, strategy researchers have directed attention to the specific moves a...
  180. Osborn's (1957) book Applied Imagination fueled the spread of group brainstorming as ...
  181. What Planners Do is an important book for students of public administration, urban st...
  182. Governing and Politicizing, to use convenient labels, constitute a singular double-pl...
  183. Governing and Politicizing, to use convenient labels, constitute a singular double-pl...
  184. I looked forward to reviewing this book. Careers, in my view, were the business of al...
  185. The first sentence of Jerry Salancik's very first professional publication (co-author...
  186. Readers of Copper Crucible, Jonathan Rosenblum's gripping account of a bitter struggl...
  187. In light of trends toward globalization, restructuring, and downsizing, psychological...
  188. Over the last four decades, Thomas Jefferson (Tee-Jay) High School has been both an i...
  189. This paper lays the groundwork for new models of work and relations of production tha...
  190. Arguing that current theories of organizational change fail to pay adequate attention...
  191. This study advances research on CEO-board relationships, interlocking directorates, a...
  192. Two periods of radical political-economic change in the former East Germany illuminat...
  193. This study investigates how top management teams in higher education institutions mak...
  194. The writing of history is a conceit of survivors. Since survival is temporary, histor...
  195. As the architecture of organizations changes, a whole host of consequences is bound t...
  196. Anniversaries, such as ASQ's 40th year of publication, are occasions to take stock. T...
  197. Early Days I was not aware of the birth of ASQ. In 1956 I had not yet myself been reb...
  198. The purpose of this brief essay is to note that organizational psychology is slowly e...
  199. I am very honored to help celebrate ASQ's distinguished 40-year history and by the in...