Organization Theory

 

Submitted by: Tim Pollock

 

Session 1 Introduction and Overview of Organization Theory

 

Scott. & Davis Book Chapter 1

Pfeffer, J. 1993. Barriers to the advance of organizational science: Paradigm development as a dependent variable. Academy of Management Review, 18: 599-620.

Canella, A.A. & Paetzlold, R.L. 1994. Pfeffer's barriers to the advance of organization science: A rejoinder. Academy of Management Review, 19: 331-341.

Davis, G.F. & Marquis, C. 2005. Prospects for organization theory in the early twenty-first century: Institutional fields and mechanisms. Organization Science, 16: 332-343.

 

 

Session 2 Rational System Approaches

 

Scott & Davis Book Chapter 2

Taylor, F.W. 1916. Principles of Scientific Management, 30-49; 58-97; 118-144

Locke, E.A. 1982. The ideas of Frederick W. Taylor: An evaluation Academy of Management Review, Vol. 7: 14-24.

Weber, M. Economy and Society 1978 pp.212-254, 956-975

Blau, P. 1963. "Critical Comments on Weber's View of Authority" American Political Science Review, 57:305-316.

 

 

Session 3 Natural System Approaches

 

Scott & Davis Book Chapter 3

Roethlisberger, F.J. & Dickson, W.J. 1939. Management and the Worker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Chapters 1, 17, 21-25

Barnard, C.I. 1938. The Functions of the Executive. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pages 82-123, 139-184.

 

Roy, 1952. "Banana Time: Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction" AJS

 

 

Session 4 Open Systems and "Old" Institutional Theory

 

Scott & Davis Book Chapter 4

Merton, R.K. 1936. "The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposeful Social Action" American Sociological Review, 1: 894-904.

Selznick, P. 1948. "Foundations of the Theory of Organization" American Sociological Review, 13: 25-35.

Selznick, P. 1957. Leadership in Administration.Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. - Chapters 1 and 5

Stinchcombe, A. 1965. "Social Structure and Organizations" in James G. March (ed.) Handbook of Organizations. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally. 142-193.

 

Selznick, P. 1943. "An Approach to a Theory of Bureaucracy" American Sociological Review, 8: 47-54.

 

 

Session 5 Contingency Theory

 

Scott & Davis Book Chapter 5

Thompson, J.D. 1967. Organizations in action: Social science bases of administrative theory: Chapters 1-4.

Lawrence, P.R., & Lorsch, J.W. 1967. Differentiation and integration in complex organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly, 12: 1-47.

Kimberly, J. 1976. Organizational size and the structuralist perspective. Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 21: 571-597.

Schoonhoven, C.B. 1981. Problems with contingency theory: Testing assumptions hidden within the language of contingency theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 349-377.

Sine, W.D., Mitsuhashi, H. & Kirsch, D.A. 2006. Revisiting Burns and Stalker: Formal structure and new venture performance in emerging economic sectors. Academy of Management Journal, 49: 121-132.

 

Donaldson, L. 1987. Strategy and structural adjustment to regain fit and performance: In defense of contingency theory. Journal of Management Studies, 24: 1-24.

Hickson, D.J., Hinings, C.A., Schenk, R.E., & Pennings, J.M. 1971. A strategic contingencies theory of intraorganizational power. Administrative Science Quarterly, 16: 216-229.   

Woodward, 1965 Industrial Organization Introduction, Chapters 4 and 5

Blau, P. 1970, "A Formal Theory of Differentiation in Organizations American Sociological Review, 35:  201-218.

Child, J. 1972. Organizational structure, environment and performance: The role of strategic choice. Sociology, 6: 1-22.

Hickson, Pugh and Pheysey 1969. "Operations Technology and Organization Structure: An Empirical Reappraisal" ASQ.

Perrow, C.R. 1967. "A Framework for Comparative Organizational Analysis" American Sociological Review, 32: 194-208.

Aldrich, "Technology and Organizational Structure: A Reexamination of the findings of the Aston Group" ASQ 1972

Donaldson, Lex.  1996.  The normal science of structural contingency theory.  In S. R. Clegg, C. Hardy & W. R. Nord (eds.), Handbook of Organization Studies, pp.57-76.  London: Sage.

Siggelkow, N. 2002.  Evolution toward fit.  ASQ, 47: 125-159.

Galbraith, J.R. 1977. Organization design: An information processing view. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Lawrence, P.R., & Lorsch, J.W. 1967.  Organization and environment. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School.

Tushman, M.L. 1979. Work characteristics and subunit communication structure: A contingency analysis. ASQ, 24: 82-97.

Galbraith, J. 1973. Designing complex organizations. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Trist, E.L., & Bamforth, K.W. 1951. Social and psychological consequences of the longwall method of coal-getting. Human Relations, 4: 3-28.

Van de Ven, A.H., & Drazin, R. 1985. The concept of fit in contingency theory. ROB, 7: 333-365.

Gresov, C. 1989. Exploring fit and misfit with multiple contingencies. ASQ, 34: 431-453.

 

 

Session 6 Carnegie School - Behavioral Decision Making

 

March, J.G., & Simon, H.A. 1958. Organizations, Chapters 5-7.

Cyert, R.M., & March, J.G. 1963. Chapter 7: A summary of basic concepts. From: A behavioral theory of the firm.

Cohen, M.D., March, J.G., & Olsen, J.P. 1972. A garbage can model of organizational choice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17: 1-25.

Levitt, B. & March, J. G. 1988. Organizational Learning. Annual Review of Sociology, 14:319-340.

Levinthal, D. A. & Rerup, C. 2006. Crossing an apparent chasm: bridging mindful and less-mindful perspectives on organizational learning. Organization Science, 17(4): 502-513.

Bendor, J., Moe, T.M. & Shotts, K.W. 2001. "Recycling the garbage can: An assessment of the research program."American Political Science Review, 95: 169-190.

 

Olsen, J.P. 2001. "Garbage can, new institutionalism and the study of politics." American Political Science Review, 95: 191-198.

Levitt, B., & Nass, C. 1989. The lid on the garbage can: Institutional constraints on decision making in the technical core of college-text publishers. ASQ, 34: 190-207.

Padgett, J.F. 1980. Managing garbage can hierarchies. ASQ, 25: 583-604.

March, J. G. 1991. Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning. Organization Science, 2(1): 71-87.

Weick, K. E., Sutcliffe, K. M., & Obstfeld, D. 1999. Organizing for high reliability: Processes of collective mindfulness, Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol. 21, 1999, Vol. 21: 81-123.

Haunschild, P.R., & Sullivan, B.N. 2002.  Learning from complexity: Effects of prior accidents and incidents on airlines' learning.  ASQ 47: 609-643.

 

 

Session 7 "New" Institutional Theory

 

DiMaggio, P.J. & Powell, W.W., 1991.  “Introduction” in W.W. Powell and P.J. DiMaggio (Eds.) The New Institutionalism In Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press: 1-38.

Meyer and Rowan, 1977. "Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony" AJS  83: 340-63

Hirsch, P.M. & Lounsbury, M. 1997. "Ending the family quarrel: Toward a reconciliation of the "old" and "new" institutionalisms. American Behavioral Scientist, 40(4): 406-418.

Kraatz, M. and Zajac, E. 1996. "Exploring the Limits of the New Institutionalism: The Causes and Consequences of Illegitimate Change." American Sociological Review, 61: 812-836.

Lounsbury, M.  2001.Institutional sources of practice variation: Staffing college and university recycling programs.  Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 46: 29-56.

Zajac, E.J. & Westphal, J.D. 2004a.The Social construction of market value: Institiutionalization and learning perspectives on stock market reactions. American Sociological Review, 69: 433-457.

Zuckerman, E.W. 2004. Towards the social construction of an interdisciplinary turf war. American Sociological Review, 69: 458-465.

Zajac, E.J. & Westphal, J.D. 2004b.Should sociological theories venture into "economic territory?" Yes! American Sociological Review, 69: 466-471.

 

Leblebici, H. Salancik, G.R. Copay, A. and King, T. 1991. "Institutional Change and the Transformation of Inter-Organizational Fields: An Organizational History of the U.S. Radio Broadcasting Industry." Administrative Science Quarterly, 36: 333-363.

 

Selznick, P. 1996. Institutionalism "Old" and "New". Administrative Science Quarterly, 2: 270-277.

 

Zucker, L.G. 1977. The role of institutionalization in cultural persistence. American Sociological Review, 42: 726-743.

 

DiMaggio and Powell 1983. "The Iron Cage Revisited" ASR 48: 147-160.

 

Fligstein, N. 1991. “The structural transformation of American industry: An institutional account of the causes of diversification in the largest firms, 1919-1979” in W.W. Powell and P.J. DiMaggio (Eds.) The New Institutionalism In Organizational Analysis. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press: 311-336.

 

Hargadon and Douglas 2001. “When Innovations Meet Institutions: Edison and the Design of the Electric Light.” ASQ, 46: 476-501.

 

Tolbert and Zucker 1983. "Institutional Sources of Change in the Formal Structure of Organizations: The Diffusion of Civil Service Reform, 1880-1935" ASQ 22-39.

 

Powell. 1991. "Expanding the Scope of Institutional Analysis" The New Institutionalism

 

Greenwood, Royston, & Hinings, C. R.  1996.  “Understanding Radical Organizational Change: Bringing together the Old and the New Institutionalism .” The Academy of Management Review, 21: 1022-1054.

 

Covaleski, M.A., & Dirsmith, M. 1988. An institutional perspective on the rise, social transformation, and fall of a university budget category. ASQ, 33: 562-587.

 

Mezias, S.J. 1990. An institutional model of organizational practice: Financial reporting at the Fortune 200. ASQ, 35: 431-457.

 

Davis, G.F., Diekmann, K.A., & Tinsley C.H. 1994. The decline and fall of the conglomerate firm in the 1980s: The deinstitutionalization of an organizational form. ASR, 59: 547-570.

 

Scott, W.R., & Meyer, J.W. 1983. The organization of societal sectors.  In Organizational environments: Ritual and rationality, pp. 129-154. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

 

Scott, W.R. 1987. The adolescence of institutional theory. ASQ, 32: 493-511.

 

 

Session 8 Organizational Ecology

 

*Hannan, M.T., & Freeman, J. 1977. The population ecology of organizations. American Journal of Sociology, 82: 929-964.

 

*Hannan, M.T., & Freeman, J. 1984. Structural inertia and organizational change. American Sociological Review, 49: 149-164. 

 

*Young, R.C. 1988. Is population ecology a useful paradigm for the study of organizations? American Journal of Sociology, 94: 1-24.

 

*Carroll. G. and Swaminathan, A. 2000. “Why the Microbrewery Movement? Organizational Dynamics of Resource Partitioning in the US Brewing Industry.” American Journal of Sociology, 106:715-762.

 

*Amburgey, T.L. Kelley, D. and Barnett, W.P. 1993. "Resetting the Clock: The Dynamics of Organizational Change and Failure.  Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 38: 51-73.

 

* Dobrev, S.D., Kim, T.Y., & Carroll, G.R. 2003. Shifting gears, shifting niches: Organizational inertia and change in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, 1885-1981. Organization Science, 14: 264-282.

 

Miner, A.S., Amburgey, T.L. & Stearns, T.M. 1990. “Interorganizational linkages and population dynamics: Buffering and transformational shields.” Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 689-713.

 

Barnett, W.P. 1997. The dynamics of competitive intensity. ASQ, 42: 128-160. 

 

Ingram, P., & Baum, J.A. 1997. Chain affiliation and the failure of Manhattan hotels, 1898-1980. ASQ, 42: 68-102

 

Barnett, W.P., & Carroll, G.R. 1987. Competition and mutualism among early telephone companies. ASQ, 32: 400-421.

 

Carroll, G.R., & Hannan, M.T. 1989. Density delay in the evolution of organizational populations: A model and five empirical tests. ASQ, 34: 411-430.

 

Delacroix, J., Swaminathan, A., & Solt, M.E. 1989. Density dependence versus population dynamics: An ecological study of failings in the California Wine Industry. American Sociological Review, 54: 245-262.

 

Freeman, J., & Hannan, M.T. 1989. Setting the record straight on organizational ecology: Rebuttal to Young. American Journal of Sociology, 85: 425-439.

 

Brittain, J., & Wholey, D.R. 1989. Assessing organizational ecology as sociological theory: Comment on Young. American Journal of Sociology, 85: 439-444.

 

Hannan, M.T., & Freeman, J. 1989. Organizational ecology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Singh, J.V., & Lumsden, C.J. 1990. Theory and research in organizational ecology. Annual Review of Sociology, 16: 161-195.

 

Bruderl and Schussler 1990. "Organizational Mortality: The Liabilities of Newness and Adolescence" ASQ 35: 530-47.

 

Barnett and Carroll 1995. “Modeling Internal Organizational Change” Annual Review of Sociology 21: 217-236.

 

Wade, J.B. 1996. A Community Level Analysis of Sources and Rates of Technological Variation in the Microprocessor Market.” AMJ 39:1218-1244.

 

 

Session 9 Resource Dependence Theory

 

*Emerson, R.M. 1962. "Power-dependence relations." American Sociological Review, 27: 31-41.

 

*Pfeffer, J., & Salancik, G.R.  1978. The external control of organizations. New York: Harper & Row.  Chapters 1, 3, & 6.

 

*Baker, W.E. 1990. Market networks and corporate behavior. American Journal of Sociology, 96: 589-625.

 

*Casciaro, T. & Piskorski, M.J. 2005. "Power imbalance, mutual dependence and constraint absorption: A closer look at resource dependence theory." Administrative Science Quarterly, 50: 167-199.

 

Boyd, B. 1990. Corporate linkages and organizational environment: A test of the resource dependence model. Strategic Management Journal, 11: 419-430.

 

Hayward, M.L.A. and Boeker. W. 1998 “Power and Conflicts of interest in Professional Firms: Evidence from Investment Banking” Administrative Science Quarterly 43: 1-22.

 

Pfeffer, J., & Davis-Blake, A. 1987. Understanding organizational wage structures: A resource dependence approach. AMJ, 437-455.

 

Pfeffer, J. 1987. A resource dependence perspective on intercorporate relations. In M.S. Mizruchi & M. Schwartz (Eds.), Intercorporate relations: The structural analysis of business, pp. 25-55. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Palmer; D. Barber, B.M., Zhou, X. & Soysal, Y. 1995. "The Friendly and Predatory Acquisition of Large U.S. Corporations in the 1960s: The Other Contested Terrain." American Sociological Review, 60: 469-499.

 

 

Session 10 Organizational Economics

 

*Coase, R.H. 1937. The nature of the firm. Economica. 4(16): 386-405.

 

*Fama. E.F. & Jensen, M.L. 1983. "Separation of Ownership from Control" Journal of Law and Economics, 26: 301-325.

 

*Eisenhardt, K. 1989. "Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review" Academy of Management Review, 14: 57-74.

 

*Williamson, O. 1981. "The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach." American Journal of Sociology, 87: 548-577.

 

*Donaldson, L. 1990. “The ethereal hand: Organizational economics and management theory.” Academy of Management Review, 15: 369-381.

 

*Ghoshal, S. 2005. Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practice. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 4: 75-91.

 

Lee, P.M., & O’Neill, H.M. 2003. “Ownership structures and R&D investments of U.S. and Japanese firms: Agency and stewardship perspectives.” Academy of Management Journal, 46: 212-225.

 

Wiseman, R. M., & Gomez-Mejia, L. R. 1998. “A behavioral agency model of risk taking.” Academy of Management Review, 25: 133-152.

 

Carpenter, M.A., Pollock, T.G. & Leary, M.M. 2003. "Governance, the Experience of Principals and Agents, and Global Strategic Intent: Testing a Model of Reasoned Risk Taking." Strategic Management Journal, 24: 803-820.

 

Jensen and Meckling 1976. "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, agency costs, and Ownership Structure" Journal of Financial Economics, 3: 305-360.

 

Kosnik, R.D. 1987. Greenmail: A study of board performance in corporate governance.  ASQ, 32: 163-185.

 

Gomez-Mejia, L.R., & Balkin, D.B. 1992. Determinants of faculty pay: An agency theory perspective. AMJ, 35: 921-955.

 

Alchian, A.A., & Demsetz, H. 1972. Production, information cost, and economic organization. American Economic Review, 62: 777-795. 

 

 

Session 11 Social Capital

 

*Salancik, G.R. 1995. "Wanted: A good network theory of organization." Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 40: 345-349.

 

*Granovetter, M.S. 1985. Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology. 91: 481-510.

 

*Uzzi, B. 1996. The sources and consequences of embeddedness for the economic performance of organizations: The network effect. American Sociological Review, 61: 674-698. 

 

*Coleman, J.S. 1988. Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology, 94: s95-s121.

 

*Adler, P.S., & Kwon, S. 2002. Social capital: Prospects for a new concept. Academy of Management

Review, 27: 17-40.

 

*Fischer, H.M. & Pollock, T.G. 2004. "Effects of Social Capital and Power on Surviving Transformational Change: The Case of Initial Public Offerings." Academy of Management Journal, 47: 463-481.

 

*Maurer, I., Ebers, R. 2006. Dynamics of social capital and their performance implications: Lessons from biotechnology start-ups. Administrative Science Quarterly, 51: 262-292.

 

Mizruchi, M. 1996.  What do Interlocks do?  An analysis, critique, and assessment of research on interlocking directorates.  Annual Review of Sociology. 22: 271-298.

 

Davis, G.F, Yoo, M. & Baker, W.E. 2003."The small world of the American corporate elite: 1991-2001." Strategic Organization, 1: 301-326.

 

Burt, R. S. 1992. The Social Structure of Competition. Chapter 2 in Networks and Organizations. Eds N.Nohria and R. Eccles.

 

Seidl, M.D. & Westphal, J.D. 2004. "Research Impact: How seemingly innocuous social cues in a CEO survey can lead to change in board and director network ties." Strategic Organization, 2: 227-270.

 

Powell, W.W., Koput, K.W., Smith-Doerr, L. 1996. Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology. Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 41: 116-145.

 

Powell, W.W. 1990. Neither market nor hierarchy: Network forms of organization. Research in Organizational Behavior, 12: 295-336.

 

Wellman, Barry. 1983. Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles. In Randall Collins (Ed.), Sociological Theory: 155-200. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

 

Pollock, T.G., Porac, J.F. & Wade, J.B. 2004. "Constructing deal networks: Brokers as network ‘architects’ in the U.S. IPO market and other rxamples." Academy of Management Review, 29: 50-72.

 

Pollock, T.G. 2004. "The Benefits and Costs of Underwriters' Social Capital in the U.S. Initial Public Offerings Market." Strategic Organization, 2(4): 357-388.

 

Uzzi, Brian. 1997. Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness. Administrative Science Quarterly. 42: 35-67.

 

Uzzi, B. 1999. "Embeddedness in the making of financial capital: How social relations and networks benefit firms seeking financing." American Sociological Review, 64: 481-505.

 

Davis, Gerald F. 1991. Agents Without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill Through the Intercorporate Network. Administrative Science Quarterly. 36(4): 583-613.

 

Davis, G.F. & Greve, H.R. 1997. "Corporate elite networks and governance changes in the 1980s." American Journal of Sociology, 103: 1-37.

 

Kraatz, M.S. 1998. "Learning by association? Interorganizational networks and adaptation to environmental change." Academy of Management Journal, 41: 621-643.

 

Lin, N., Ensel, W.M, & Vaughn, J.C. 1981. “Social resources and strength of ties: Structural factors in occupational status attainment.” American Sociological Review, 46: 393-405.

 

Portes, A. & Sensenbrenner, J. 1993. “Embeddedness and immigration: Notes on the social determinants of economic action.” American Journal of Sociology, 98: 1320-1350.

 

Bolino, M.C., Turnley, W.H., & Bloodgood, J.M. 2002. “Citizenship behavior and the creation of social capital in organizations.” Academy of Management Review, 27: 505-522.

 

Burt, R. S. 2000. “The network structure of social capital.” In R. I. Sutton & B. Staw (eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, 22: 345-423. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

 

Larson, A. 1992. Network dyads in entrepreneurial settings: A study of the governance of exchange relationships. ASQ, 37: 76-104.

 

Ahuja, Gautam.  2000.  Collaboration networks, structural holes, and innovation: a longitudinal study.  ASQ, 45: 425-455.

 

Granovetter, M.S. 1973. The strength of weak ties. AJS, 78: 1360-1380.

 

Emerson, R.M. 1976. "Social Exchange Theory" Annual Review of Sociology, 2: 335-362.

 

Flynn, F.J. 2003. "How much should I give and how often? The effects of generosity and frequency or favor exchange on social status and productivity." Academy of Management Journal, 46: 539-553.

 

 

Session 12 Sociopolitcal Approaches to Corporate Governance

 

* Finkelstein, S. 1992. "Power in top management teams: Dimensions, measurement, and validation." Academy of Management Journal, 35: 505-538.

 

*Wade, J.B., O’Reilly, C.A., III, & Chandratat, I. 1990. Golden Parachutes: CEOs and the exercise of social influence. Administrative Science Quarterly, 35: 587-603.

 

*Zajac, E.J. & Westphal, J.D. 1995.  Accounting for the Explanations of CEO Compensation: Substance & Symbolism. Administrative Science Quarterly. 40: 283-308.

 

*Westphal, J.D. 1998. "Board games: How CEOs adapt to increases in structural board independence from management". Administrative Science Quarterly, 43: 511-537.

 

*Porac, J.F., Wade, J.B. & Pollock, T.G. 1999. Industry categories and the politics of the comparable firm in CEO compensation. Administrative Science Quarterl, 44: 112-144.

 

*Davis. G.F. 2005. New Directions in Corporate Governance. Annual Review of Sociology, 31: 143-162.

 

Pollock, T.G., Fischer, H.M. & Wade, J.B. 2002. "The Role of Power and Politics in Repricing Executive Options." Academy of Management Journal, 45(6): 1172-1182.

 

Westphal, J.D. & Khanna, P. 2003. "Keeping Directors in Line: Social Distancing as a Control Mechanism in the Corporate Elite." Administrtative Science Quarterly, 48: 361-398.

 

Westphal, J.D. & Zajac, E.J. 1998.  The Symbolic Management of Stockholders: Corporate Governance Reforms and Shareholder Reactions.  Administrative Science Quarterly. 43: 127-153.

 

Belliveau, M.A., O’Reilly, C.A., III, & Wade, J.B. 1996. Social capital at the top: Effects of social similarity and status on CEO compensation. Academy of Management Journal, 39: 1568-1593.

 

David, P., Kochar, R., & Levitas, E. 1998. The effect of institutional investors on the level and

mix of CEO compensation. Academy of Management Journal, 41: 200-208.

 

Davis, G.F., & Thompson, T.F. 1994. A social movement perspective on corporate control. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39: 141-173.

 

Main, B.G., O’Reilly, C.A., III, & Wade, J.B. 1995. The CEO, the board of directors and executive compensation: Economic and psychological perspectives. Industrial and Corporate Change, 4: 293-332.

 

Westphal, J.D., & Zajac, E.J. 1995. Who shall govern? CEO/board power, demographic

similarity and new director selection. Administrative Science Quarterly, 40: 60-83.

 

 

Session 13 Sensemaking and Enactment

 

*Weick, K.E. 1993. "The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster" Administrative Science Quarterly, 38: 628-652.

 

*Porac, J., Thomas, H., Wilson, F., Paton, D. & Kanfer, A. 1995. Rivalry and the Industry Model of Scottish Knitwear Producers. Administrative Science Quarterly. 40(2): 203-227.

 

*Abolafia, M.Y., & Kilduff, M. 1988. Enacting market crisis: The social construction of a speculative bubble. Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 33: 177-193.

 

*Garud, R., and Rappa, M.A. 1994. A socio-cognitive model of technology evolution: The case of cochlear implants.  Organization Science. 5: 344-362.

 

*Gioia, D.A. & Thomas, J.B. 1996. Identity, image and issue interpretation: Sensemaking during strategic change in academia. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41: 370-403.

 

Thomas, J.B., Clark, S.M., & Gioia, D.A. 1993. Strategic sensemaking and organizational performance: Linkages among scanning, interpretation, action, and outcomes. Academy of Management Journal. 36(2): 239-270.

 

Gioia, D.A & Chittipeddi, K. 1991. Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Strategic Change Initiation. Strategic Management Journal, 12: 433-448.

 

        Weick, K.E. 1976. Educational organizations as loosely coupled systems. Administrative Science Quarterly, 21: 1-19. 

 

Walsh, James P. 1995. Managerial and organizational cognition: Notes from a trip down memory lane. Organization Science. 6(3): 280-321.

 

        Meyer, A.D. 1982. Adapting to environmental jolts. ASQ, 27: 515-537. 

 

Barley, S.R. 1986. Technology as an occasion for structuring: Evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments. ASQ, 31: 78-108

 

Stewart Ranson; Bob Hinings; Royston Greenwood. 1980.The Structuring of Organizational Structures Administrative Science Quarterly, 25: 1-17.

 

Kilduff, M., Funk, J.L., & Mehra, A. 1997. Engineering identity in a Japanese factory.  Org Science, 8: 579-592.

 

Weick, Karl. 1995. Sensemaking in organizations. Sage Publications.

 

Heimer, C.A. 1985. Allocating information costs in a negotiated information order: Interorganizational constraints on decision making in Norwegian oil insurance. ASQ, 30: 395-417.

 

Hall, R.I. (1976).  A system pathology of an organization: The rise and fall of the old Saturday Evening Post. ASQ, 18: 279-290.

 

McCarthy, J.D., & Zald, M.N. 1977. Resource mobilization and social movements: A partial theory. AJS, 82: 1212-1241.

 

Weick, K.E. 1990. Technology as equivoque: Sensemaking in new technologies. In P.S. Goodman & L.S. Sproull (Eds.), Technology and Organizations, pp. 1-44. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

 

Orton, J.D., & Weick, K.E. 1990. Loosely coupled systems: A reconceptualization. AMR, 15: 203-223. 

 

 

Session 14 - Status, Reputation and Celebrity

 

*Merton, R.K. 1968. The Matthew effect in science. Science, 159: 56-63.

 

*Podolny, J.M. 1994. Market uncertainty and the social character of economic exchange. Administrative Science Quarterly, 39: 458-483.

 

*Fombrun, C., & Shanley, M. 1990. What’s in a name? Reputation building and corporate strategy. Academy of Management Journal. 33: 233-258.

 

*Rindova, V.P., Williamson, I.O., Petkova, A.P., & Sever, J.M. 2005. Being good or being known: An empirical investigation of the dimensions, antecedents and consequences of organizational reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 48: 1033-1049.

 

*Rindova, V.P., Pollock, T.G. & Hayward, M.L.A. 2006. "Celebrity firms: The social construction of market popularity" Academy of Management Review, 31(1): 50-71.

 

*Hayward, M.L.A.. Rindova, V.P. & Pollock, T.G. 2004. “Believing one’s own press: The antecedents and consequences of CEO celebrity.” Strategic Management Journal, 25(7): 637-653.

 

Weigelt, K. & Camerer, C. (1988) 'Reputation and corporate strategy: A review of recent theory and applications', Strategic Management Journal, 9: 443-454.

 

Wilson, R. (1985) 'Reputations in games and markets', in A. E. Roth (Ed.), Game-Theoretic Models of Bargaining: 27-62. London: Cambridge University Press.

 

Raub, W. & Weesie, J. (1990) 'Reputation and efficiency in social interactions: An example of network effects', American Journal of Sociology, 96: 626-654.

 

Rindova, V.P., & Fombrun, C.J. (1999) 'Constructing competitive advantage: The role of firm-constituent interactions', Strategic Management Journal, 20: 691-710.

 

Benjamin, B.A., & Podolny, J.M. 1999. Status, quality, and social order in the California wine industry, 1981-1991. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(3): 563-589.

 

Rao, H. 1994. The social construction of reputation: Certification contests, legitimation and the survival of organizations: 1895-1912. Strategic Management Journal. 15: 29-44.

 

 

Session 15 Organizational Narratives and Discourse

 

*Fine, G.A. 1996. "Justifying Work: Occupational Rhetorics as Resources in Restaurant Kitchens". Administrative Science Quarterly, 41: 90-115.

 

*Elsbach, K.D. & Kramer, R.M. 1996. "Members' responses to organization identity threats: Encountering and countering the Business Week rankings." Adminstrative Science Quarterly, 41: 442-476.

 

*Elsbach, K.D. & Sutton, R.I. 1992. "Acquiring organizational legitimacy through illegitimate actions: A marriage of institutional and impression management theories." Academy of Management Journal, 35: 699-738.

 

*Wade, J.B., Porac, J.F. & Pollock, T.G. 1997. Worth, words and the justification of executive pay. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 18: 641-664.

 

*Rindova, V.P., Bacerra, M. & Contardo, I. 2004. "Enacting Competitive Wars: Competitive Activity, Language Games, and Market Consequences." Academy of Management Review, 29: 670-686.

 

*Ferarro, F., Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R.I. 2005. Economics Language and Assumptions: How Theories Can Become Self-Fulfilling. Academy of Management Review, 30: 8-24.

 

Salancik, G.R. & Meindl, J.R. 1984. Corporate attributions as strategic illusions of management control.  Administrative Science Quarterly. 29: 238-254

 

Staw, B., McKechnie, P. and Puffer, S. (1983). ‘The Justification of Organizational Performance’, Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 582-600.

 

Bettman, J. and Weitz, B. (1983). ‘Attributions in the Board Room: Causal Reasoning in Corporate Annual Reports,’ Administrative Science Quarterly, 28: 165-183.

 

Phillips, N., Lawrence, T.B. & Hardy, C. 2004. Discourse and Institutions. Academy of Management Review, 29: 635-652.

 

Phillips, N., Lawrence, T.B. & Hardy, C. 2005. Discourse and Collaboration: The Role of Conversations and Collective Identity. Academy of Management Review, 30: 58-77..

 

Abrahamson, E., & Fairchild, G. 1999. "Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes." Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 708-740.

 

Zbaracki, M.J. 1998. "The Rhetoric and Reality of Total Quality Management." Administrative Science Quarterly, 43: 602-636.

 

Elsbach, K.D. 1994. "Building organizational legitimacy in the California cattle industry - The construction and effectiveness of verbal accounts." Administrative Science Quarterly, 39: 57-88.

 

Ginzel, L., Kramer, and Sutton, R. (1992). ‘Organizational Impression Management as a Reciprocal Influence Process: The Neglected Role of the Organizational Audience’, in Research in Organizational Behavior, 15, L.L. Cummings and B. Staw, eds.: 227-266.

 

Abrahamson, E. and Park, C. (1994). "Concealment of Negative Organizational Outcomes: An Agency Theory Perspective."  The Academy of Management Journal, 37, 1302-1334.

 

Mizruchi, Mark S., & Fein, Lisa, C.  1999. "The Social Construction of Organizational knowledge: A Study of the Uses of Coercive, Mimetic, and Normative Isomorphism." Administrative Science Quarterly, 44: 653-683.