Administrative Science Quarterly articles from December 1992

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from December 1992

Organizing moves in software support hot lines.
December 1, 1992... Lawrence Erlbaum. Collins, Randall 1981 "On the microfoundations of macrosociology." American Journal of Sociology, 86: 984-1013. Cyert, Richard M., and James G. March 1963 A Behavioral Theory of the Firm. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:...

Being different: relational demography and organizational attachment.
December 1, 1992... the employees in Beta (and 18 percent in Delta) work in units with a homogeneous white workforce. The race relations literature (Pettigrew, 1980) suggests that minorities are more likely to be tolerated by the majority when they represent only a...

Localized competition and organizational failure in the Manhattan hotel industry, 1898-1990. (includes appendix)
December 1, 1992... Park, CA: Sage. Amburgey, Terry L., Tina Dacin, and Dawn Kelly 1993 "Disruptive selection and population segmentation: Inter-population competition as a segregating process." In Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh (eds.), Evolutionary...

Organization theory and the market for corporate control: a dynamic analysis of the characteristics of large takeover targets, 1980-1990.
December 1, 1992... banks or other firms had no such effect. Having an executive of a large bank on the board of directors also failed to save firms from takeover.(4) These results fail to support the predictions of bank control theory; moreover, they suggest that...

Bridging the boundary: external activity and performance in organizational teams.
December 1, 1992... One additional performance measure was collected at time 1. Team members were asked in the questionnaire to rate the performance of their teams on six dimensions, including efficiency, quality, technical innovation, adherence to schedules,...