Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1991

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1991

The construction of leadership images in the popular press: the case of Donald Burr and People Express. (People Express Airlines Inc.; includes appendices)
December 1, 1991... A social constructionist view (Berger and Luckmann, 1966) suggests that much about the way we understand organizations, as reflected in our implicit theories (Downey and Brief, 1986), is likely to be controlled by our interactions with social...

Keeping the faith: a model of cultural transmission in formal organizations. (includes appendix)
December 1, 1991... To study the conditions under which culture can be transmitted effectivly in formal organizations, where members of the system come and go rapidly and in large numbers, we develop a model of the cultural transmission process. The model...

Agents without principles? The spread of the poison pill through the intercorporate network.
December 1, 1991... This study compares the agency theory of the firm with interorganizational theory in examining the factors associated with the adoption of the poison pill--a takeover defense issued by a firm's board of directors that can dramatically increase...

The effects of explanations on negative reactions to deceit.
December 1, 1991... Managers must occasionally tell employees that requested resources are unobtainable and that unwanted changes, such as layoffs or paycuts, are necessary. Researchers have found that under such circumstances, explanations reduce employees'...

Cosmetic, speculative, and adaptive organizational change in the wine industry: a longitudinal study. (includes appendix)
December 1, 1991... In this longitudinal study of the California Wine industry between 1946 and 1984, we used event-history analysis to examine the joint effect of organizational characteristics and of environmental variation on organizational change....