Complex Organizations (seminar)
Submitted by: Brayden King
Recommende Texts:
Burt, Ronald S. 1992. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Carroll, Glenn R. and Michael T. Hannan. 2004. The Demography of Corporations and Industries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Khurana, Rakesh. 2002. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Podolny, Joel. 2005. Status Signals: A Sociological Study of Market Competition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Raeburn, Nicole. 2004. Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights: Changing Corporate America from Inside Out. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Scott, W. Richard. 2000. Institutions and Organizations, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
January 12: Introduction
Syllabus review and introduction to seminar material.
Jan 19: Bureaucracy and rational management
Readings: Simon, Herbert A. 1991. “Organizations and Markets.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5: 25-44.
Weber, Max. 1968. Pp. 46-77 in On Charisma and Institution Building, edited by S.N. Eisenstandt. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Merton, Robert K. 1957. “Bureaucratic Structure and Personality.” Pp. 249-60 in Social Theory and Social Structure. Glenco, IL: The Free Press.
Jan 26: Rationality and organizational decision-making
Readings: March, James G., and Herbert A. Simon. 1958. Pp. 136-71 in Organizations. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Simon, Herbert A. 1997. Pp. 177-222 in Administrative Behavior, 4th edition. New York: Free Press.
Jackall, Robert. 1988. Pp. 17-74 in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
February 2: Institutional theory
Readings: Pp. 47-89 in Scott, Institutions and Organizations.
Meyer, John W. and Brian Rowan. 1977. “Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony.” American Journal of Sociology. 83: 340-63.
DiMaggio, Paul J. and Walter W. Powell. “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields.” American Sociological Review. 48: 147-60.
Tolbert, Pamela and Lynn Zucker. 1983. “Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935.” Administrative Science Quarterly 28: 22-39.
Feb 9: Institutions, fields, and organizational bandwagons
Readings: Pp. 91-149 in Scott, Institutions and Organizations.
Dobbin, Frank and John R. Sutton. 1998. “The Strength of a Weak State: The Rights Revolution and the Rise of Human Resources Management Divisions.” American Journal of Sociology. 104: 441-76.
Staw, Barry and Lisa D. Epstein. 2000. “What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay.” Administrative Science Quarterly. 45: 523-56.
Fligstein, Neil. 2001. “Social Skill and the Theory of Fields.” Sociological Theory. 19: 105-25.
Feb 16: Investor capitalism and CEOs
Readings: Khurana, Searching for a Corporate Savior
Feb 23: Organizational demography
Readings: Pp. 1-81, 191-260 in Carroll and Hannan, The Demography of Corporations and Industries
March 2: Organizational Identity
Readings: Whetten, David A. and Alison Mackey. 2002. “A Social Actor Conception of Organizational Identity and its Implications for the Study of Organizational Reputation.” Business and Society 41: 393-414.
Leifer, Eric M. and Harrison C. White. 1987. “A Structural Approach to Markets.” Chp. 6 in The Structural Analysis of Business, edited by Mark Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zuckerman, Ezra W. 1999. “The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount.” American Journal of Sociology 104: 1398-438.
March 9: Organizational status
Reading: Podolny, Status Signals
March 16: Structural antecedents to competition
Readings: Burt, Ronald S., Structural Holes
March 23: Interorganizational networks
Readings: Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology 91: 481-510.
Powell, Walter W. 1990. “Neither Markets Nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization.” Pp. 295-336 in Research in Organizational Behavior, edited by Staw and Cummints. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Beckman, Christine M. and Pamela R. Haunschild. 2002. “Network Learning: The Effect of Partners’ Heterogeneity of Experience on Corporate Acquisitions.” Administrative Science Quarterly. 47: 92-124.
Uzzi, Brian. 1997. “Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness.” Administrative Science Quarterly. 42: 35-67.
March 30: Markets, competition, and competitiveness
Readings: Fligstein, Neil. 1996. “Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions.” American Sociological Review 61: 656-73.
Dobbin, Frank and Timothy J. Dowd. 2000. “The Market that Antitrust Built: Public Policy, Private Coercion, and Railroad Acquisitions, 1825-1922.” American Sociological Review. 65: 631-57.
Wade, James B., Anand Swaminathan, and Michael Saxon. 1998. “Normative and Resource Flow Consequences of Local Regulations in the American Brewing Industry, 1845-1918.” Administrative Science Quarterly. 45: 905-935.
Lounsbury, Michael and Mary Ann Glynn. 2001. “Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy, and the Acquisition of Resources.” Strategic Management Journal 22: 545-64.
April 6: Organizational change
Readings: Pp. 181-204 in Scott, Institutions and Organizations
Pp. 261-278 in Carroll and Hannan, The Demography of Corporations and Industries
Rao, Hayagreeva, Phillipe Monin, and Rodolphe Durand. 2003. “Institutional Change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle Cuisine as an Identity Movement in French Gastronomy.” American Journal of Sociology. 108: 795-843.
Corley, Kevin G. and Dennis A. Gioia. 2004. “Identity Ambiguity and Change in the Wake of a Corporate Spin-off.” Administrative Science Quarterly 49: 173-208.
April 13: Creating corporate change
Reading: Raeburn, Lesbian and Gay Workplace Rights
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