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Complex Organizations (seminar)

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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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