Stories Collection

  1. As it turns out, the mid-1950s were marked by several "births" relevant to the field ...
  2. As I look back on the past forty years of organization studies, I experience an exhil...
  3. INTRODUCTION Academic specialization rarely involves simply redistributing tasks or t...
  4. Bob Stern and Steve Barley have attempted to seize the moral high ground, pointing to...
  5. The social systems perspective, as Stern and Barley argue, offers something of profou...
  6. During the past 15 years, organizational theorists have sought to understand why orga...
  7. How do organizations come to adopt a new market position? In markets in which several...
  8. Organizational research presents two conflicting views of the human, or attitudinal, ...
  9. The chef is not an employee in the common meaning of the word, but a practitioner, an...
  10. In recent decades, there has been unprecedented growth in corporate partnering and re...
  11. A central problem employers face is eliciting behaviors from employees when those beh...
  12. Several academic disciplines have devoted considerable attention to the study of orga...
  13. The demography of organizations - the distribution of the members of employing organi...
  14. The last 15 years have witnessed an unprecedented growth worldwide in the number of i...
  15. Organizational populations as varied as newspapers, railroads, and banks apparently e...
  16. The authors, reviewers, readers, and editors who shape what is published in ASQ insis...
  17. In many organizations performance appraisal systems remain one of the great paradoxes...
  18. INTRODUCTION What are institutions? How do they work? Are they created intentionally,...
  19. Why are organizational practices abandoned? Since abandonment is a form of organizati...
  20. Common sense tells us that people try to avoid losing courses of action. They move aw...
  21. In this paper we argue that market boundaries are socially constructed around a colle...
  22. This study of lawyers examines the degree to which professionals in general and lawye...
  23. This study examines the structure of 105 work groups and management teams to address ...
  24. While current debates about CEO compensation have generally been dominated by economi...
  25. In recent years, total quality management (TQM) has become something of a social move...
  26. Network analysis corrects a tendency in organizational theory to focus on the trees r...
  27. Ronald S. Burt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. 323 pp. $47.50. A good...
  28. Burt has two goals in Structural Holes: to delineate a structural approach to competi...
  29. The putting-out, or domestic system of production, symbolizes the transition from tra...
  30. INTRODUCTION The relative control of corporate boards of directors over management ha...
  31. Adaptation is a process of fundamental interest to organizational scholars. Historica...
  32. Organizational environments have spatial components that affect the evolutionary dyna...
  33. The study of relations between organizations has been a major concern of organization...
  34. Two contrasting models dominate the way both managers and researchers think about the...
  35. implementations and next versions of the manual. One proposal sent during this time w...
  36. 1989 "Whether and when: Probability and timing of incumbents' entry into emerging ind...
  37. natural language and in questionnaires." In Lawrence A. Pervin (ed.), Handbook of Per...
  38. Jackson, Susan E. 1985 "Participation in decision making as a strategy for reducing j...
  39. Miller, Jeffrey R., L. Murphy Smith, and Robert H. Strawser 1990 "Sources of authorit...
  40. 1990 "Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization." In Berry M. Staw ...
  41. Cook, V. J. 1988 Chomsky's Universal Grammar. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Coulmas, Flori...
  42. Stock options were valued using the following, simplified version of the Black-Schole...
  43. 1989 "Top management group heterogeneity and firm performance." Strategic Management ...
  44. Organizational surveys often have fairly low response rates. Sample surveys with low ...
  45. INTRODUCTION Organizational theorists have increasingly drawn on agency theory (Ross,...
  46. limited access to senior positions may foster these kinds of competitive experiences:...
  47. sustainable competitive advantage." Journal of Management, 17: 191-206. Foote, Nelson...
  48. Several theories have been used to explain differences in the rationalized, formal st...
  49. Science Quarterly, 31: 586-611 Singh, Jitendra, David J. Tucker, and Robert J. House ...
  50. 1976 "Knee-deep in the big muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course...
  51. Association of Corporate Directors in 1991 found that only 8 percent of the 4,600 exe...
  52. industry. Would it have done better? These questions cannot be answered definitively ...
  53. these findings refine the relationship between institutional and impression managemen...
  54. REFERENCES Bandura, Albert 1986 Social Foundations of Thoughts and Action: A Social C...
  55. Pfeffer, Jeffrey, and Gerald R. Salancik 1978 The External Control of Organizations: ...
  56. This study shows that the legitimation of new markets for savings and loan associatio...
  57. 1990 "The psychological conditions of personal engagement and disengagement at work."...
  58. King, Jonathan B. 1989 "Confronting chaos." Journal of Business Ethics, 8: 39-50. Kle...
  59. 1979 Vision of the Disinherited: The Making of American Pentecostalism. New York: Oxf...
  60. 663-691. Gibbons, Robert, and Kevin J. Murphy 1990 "Relative performance evaluation f...
  61. 1993 "Worth waiting for? Delayed compensation, training and turnover in the United St...
  62. structure and technology, are less conspicuous but potentially more powerful differen...
  63. methods resolves uncertainty in the evaluation process. Not surprisingly, we found th...
  64. What were simple norms in phase 1 (we all need to be at work on time) now became high...
  65. that the senior party took action to help the African-American protege cope with raci...
  66. 1967 Organization and Environment. Boston: Harvard Business School, Division of Resea...
  67. REFERENCES Abraham, Katharine G. 1988 "Flexible staffing arrangements and employers' ...
  68. reviewers. 1 A central theoretical debate in this body of work is whether the key sou...
  69. 1955 "Organizational change in terms of a series of selected variables." American Soc...
  70. staff, local community groups, and local industry or business leaders. It is quite pr...
  71. of a third firm. There are, however, at least two reasons why nondirectional ties mig...
  72. 1990 "Can big owners make a big difference?" Harvard Business Review, Sept.-Oct.: 70-...
  73. Lawrence Erlbaum. Collins, Randall 1981 "On the microfoundations of macrosociology." ...
  74. banks or other firms had no such effect. Having an executive of a large bank on the b...
  75. the employees in Beta (and 18 percent in Delta) work in units with a homogeneous whit...
  76. One additional performance measure was collected at time 1. Team members were asked i...
  77. Park, CA: Sage. Amburgey, Terry L., Tina Dacin, and Dawn Kelly 1993 "Disruptive selec...
  78. Boeker, Warren, and Jerry Goodstein 1993 "Performance and successor choice: The moder...
  79. information. Technology, by itself, does not create such an organization. But if the ...
  80. client dependence) and characterized by similar levels of female exclusion from high-...
  81. Press. Hannan, Michael T., and John Freeman 1977 "The population ecology of organizat...
  82. This paper examines whether the dramatic increase in women's representation among man...
  83. This study develops an efficiency explanation for commonly observed performance-based...
  84. The relationship between interclass pay equity and product quality is examined in a s...
  85. This paper identifies a systematic instability in the weight that people place on int...
  86. This research explores the effects of an objectively determined, continous measure of...
  87. The influence of individuals' prior commitment to an institution on their reactions t...
  88. Tournament models have developed into an important component of the theoretical liter...
  89. This paper underscores the importance of hybrid forms in the current market transitio...
  90. Japanese intercorporate relationships are considered in terms of three different stru...
  91. In this paper we test the hypothesis that boundary spanning is a differentiated funct...
  92. This paper examines the proposition that change is detrimental to organizational perf...
  93. This study investigated the potential existence and formation of subcultures in organ...
  94. Social control in network organizational forms is examined through an inductive field...
  95. This study compares the agency theory of the firm with interorganizational theory in ...
  96. Managers must occasionally tell employees that requested resources are unobtainable a...
  97. A social constructionist view (Berger and Luckmann, 1966) suggests that much about th...
  98. In this longitudinal study of the California Wine industry between 1946 and 1984, we ...
  99. To study the conditions under which culture can be transmitted effectivly in formal o...
  100. To investigate how the fit of an employee with his or her organization a a whole is e...
  101. The research reported here explores how institutional practices change ver time in an...
  102. We argue in this paper that in an age of complexity, change, large enterprises, and n...
  103. Classic and contemporary methods for analyzing construct validity are compared and co...
  104. A simple model is developed here that relates organizational age and mortality rates....
  105. Comparative Economic Organization: The Analysis of Discrete Structural Alternatives T...
  106. Institutional Linkages and Organizational Mortality...
  107. The Dynamics of Intense Work Groups: A Study of British String Quartets This paper fo...
  108. Maintaining Norms about Expressed Emotions: The Case of Bill Collectors A qualitative...
  109. Attitudes toward New Organizational Technology: Network Proximity As a Mechanism for ...
  110. Profit Centers, Single-Source Suppliers, and Transaction Costs This paper addresses c...
  111. The Storytelling Organization: A Study of Story Performance in an Office-Supply Firm ...
  112. Corporate Performance and CEO Turnover: The Role of Performance Expectations This pap...
  113. Density-Dependent Dynamics in Regulated Industries: Founding Rates of Banks and Life ...
  114. The Development of an Intragroup Norm and the Effects of Interpersonal and Structural...
  115. Interorganization Contagion in Corporate Philanthropy Two network contagion models ar...
  116. This paper examines evidence concerning the existence of organizational buffers, whic...
  117. Using an agency theory framework and data on 89 Fortune 500 firms, we assess whether ...
  118. An evolutionary model of technological change is proposed in which a technological br...
  119. This exploratory study of 57 bankrupt firms and 57 matched survivors compared senior ...
  120. We compare and contrast the representativeness, practicality, and cost of five genera...
  121. Organizational Growth: Linking Founding Team, Strategy, Environment, and Growth among...
  122. Organizational Mortality: The Liabilities of Newness and Adolescence This article con...
  123. An Institutional Model of Organizational Pratice: Financial Reporting at the Fortune ...
  124. Top-Management-Team Tenure and Organizational Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Manage...
  125. A Multiple-Constituency Model of Effectiveness: An Empirical Examination at the Human...
  126. Assessing the Political Landscape: Structure, Cognition, and Power in Organizations T...
  127. Champions of Technological Innovation The increased turbulence, complexity, and compe...
  128. Do You Get What You Deserve? Factors Affecting the Relationship between Productivity ...
  129. Autonomy, Interdependence, and Social Control: NASA and the Space Shuttle Challenger ...
  130. Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across Twenty...
  131. The Impact of Flexible Scheduling on Employee Attendance and Turnover The implementat...
  132. The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles and Networks This paper outli...
  133. Changing Patterns or Patterns of Change: The Effects of a Change in Technology on Soc...
  134. We used the techniques of event-history analysis to examine the speed with which newl...
  135. Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and th...
  136. The Organizational Ecology of a Technological System This paper investigates organiza...
  137. Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation In this paper, we a...
  138. The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis This paper examines how two sou...
  139. Social Loafing and Collectivism: A Comparison of the United States and the People's R...
  140. Organizational, Institutional, and Societal Evolution: Medieval Craft Guilds and the ...
  141. Domains of State-Owned, Privately Held, and Publicly Traded Firms in International Co...
  142. Predicting Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect This paper reports the results of two lo...
  143. In Search of Rationality: The Purposes behind the Use of Formal Analysis in Organizat...
  144. The Development and Institutionalization of Subunit Power in Organizations The resear...
  145. Density Delay in the Evolution of Organizational Populations: A Model and Five Empiri...
  146. Matrix Management in Hospitals: Testing Theories of Matrix Structure and Development ...
  147. Environments and Strategies of Organization Start-up: Effects on Early Survival This ...
  148. Exploring Fit and Misfit with Multiple Contingencies This paper proposes a multiple-c...
  149. Mimetic Processes within an Interorganizational Field: An Empirical Test The paper ex...
  150. Managing to Be Fair: An Exploration of Values, Motives, and Leadership This paper exp...
  151. The Decoupling of CEO Pay and Performance: An Agency Theory Perspective This paper ex...
  152. The Lid on the Garbage Can: Institutional Constraints on Decision Making in the Techn...
  153. Power from What? A Reexamination of Its Relationships with Structural Conditions To ...
  154. Whether and When? Probability and Timing of Incumbents' Entry into Emerging Industri...
  155. A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Language: Organizational Boundaries and Joint Ventur...
  156. Decline in Organizations: A Literature Integration and Extension This paper reviews c...
  157. The Effects of Job Categorization on Judgments of the Motivating Potential of Jobs Re...
  158. Beyond Garbage Cans: An AI Model of Organizational Choice This study builds on the si...
  159. Entrepreneurs in Academe: An Exploration of Behaviors among Life Scientists This pape...
  160. The Movement of Conflict in Organizations: The Joint Dynamics of Splitting and Triang...
  161. Work Group Demography, Social Integration, and Turnover Using 20 actual work units wi...
  162. "Time to fold clothes," Dad said to Shelby. Dad folded a pair of jean...
  163. 1. Why do firemen wear red suspenders? Jessica Keeler, Michigan 2. Why di...
  164. Start at the beginning and see how far you can go, thinking of good answers from you...
  165. My Brother My brother is so nice. I think he is the best. He is a nice ...
  166. Which of these puzzle pieces belong in the numbered spaces? Challenge: Find whe...
  167. In a small blue pond, a little duckling had just been hatched. His name was Cornmeal...
  168. Good Idea or Bad Idea? A bed that floats. Paper clothing. A fork you ca...
  169. I was in the garage waiting for someone to fly me in the breezy March air. Someone c...
  170. Sam stared hard at the pitted, scratched ice surface, her stick poised in the air. &...
  171. In each group, say the words in order from the smallest item to the largest. ear...
  172. Trees and Lakes If you sit and listen in a wood, you can hear the trees whi...
  173. There once was a little girl who lived high upon a mountain. One day she asked her d...
  174. Girl: Why do you put up your tails when you run away? White-tailed deer: We do ...
  175. Once upon a time there was a prince who liked to play baseball. He played in his bac...
  176. The night was cold. The moon was bright. The Timbertoes liked to skate at...
  177. Invading Ants Looking for food that's on the ground, ruining my picnic,...
  178. Are you fit to be President of the United States? Physical fitness is not a requirem...
  179. Once in a faraway land, there was a big Olympics. Invitations were sent everywhere. ...
  180. Which of these animals can fly? Run fast? Climb a tree? Which of these animals ...
  181. Four friends participated in the mile run during the fifth-grade track and field day...
  182. Chickadees Black-capped and brave, two cheeky fellows peer in the windo...
  183. In this big picture find the bell, fish, apple, tack, sock, pencil, needle, mitten, ...
  184. The key to making a mobile is balance. Think of a seesaw, which is balanced when peo...
  185. 1. Glue magnetic strips to different-colored pieces of felt. Trim the felt around th...
  186. "Mom! I can't find the shirt I was going to wear!" Goofus handles foo...
  187. The Beautiful Dancer Three years of age Small crown upon head Pink dres...
  188. Many kids dream about being heroes, or at least saving the day. When I was the age o...
  189. Patient: "Doctor, doctor, I keep seeing this spinning insect!" Docto...
  190. "Hfff, hfff, hfff." Omar stuck his head out of his tent. He came nose...
  191. 1. Find a puzzle that your family isn't using anymore. Select some people-shaped puz...
  192. One summer night, my daughter Meg and I walked in the moonlight along a Florida beac...
  193. We must hurry. The train to Saint Petersburg, where our aunt lives, leaves Moscow at...
  194. The Pretzel Alphabet Pretzels hide the alphabet, letters big and small. ...
  195. Outside our kitchen window in Tanzania were some trees, and one day a beautiful Vite...
  196. Street performers in India originally used these drums to train monkeys. The drums' ...
  197. The Wind Shouts Why does the wind shout? Why can't it whisper? What is ...
  198. I have two friends that I want to invite to my party, but they don't like each other...