Key Concepts

A template page for what a Key Comncept page might lool like can be found here: template for Key Concepts.

A suggested Taxonomy

(Submitted by: Jerry Davis)

Managing within the organization

• Work/labor process/ employment relation
• Compensation/HR practices
• Cognition and decision making
• Knowledge management
• Leadership

Organization-level phenomena

• Strategy
• Boards/governance
• Top management teams
• Design/structure
• Performance/effectiveness
• Vertical integration/outsourcing
• Organizational change
• Learning, memory, routines
• Adaptation/evolution
• Culture

Beyond the organization

• Alliances/interorganizational ties
• Industry
• Ecology
• Organizational fields
• Geography/industrial districts
• Political economy/state
• Comparative/international
• Globalization

Constructs and relationships

• Institutions
• Networks
• Social capital/ communities of practice
• Conflict/cooperation/trust
• Morality/corruption
• Innovation/creativity
• Power/politics
• Identity/image
• Status
• Legitimacy

Mechanisms and processes

• Competition
• Markets
• Stratification/inequality
• Evolution
• Creationism
• Technology
• Diffusion
• Institutionalization and de-institutionalization